THE YALE 
SHAKESPEARE 

KING HENRY 

THE FOURTH 

PART TWO 

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THE SECOND PART OF 
KING HENRY THE FOURTH 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 

The Text 

Notes ....... 

Appendix A. Sources of the Play 

Appendix B. The History of the Play . 

Appendix C. The Text of the Present Edi- 
tion .... 

Appendix D. Suggestions for Collateral 
Reading .... 

Index of Words Glossed .... 



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Opposites against King Henry 
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[DRAMATIS PERSON^.] 

Rumour, the Presenter 

King Henry the Fourth 

Prince Henry, afterwards crowned King Henry the Fifth 

Prince John of Lancaster, 1 Sons to Henry the Fourth, 

Humphrey of Gloucester, I and brethren to Henry the 

Thomas of Clarence, J Fifth 

Northumberland, 

The Archbishop of York, 

Mowbray, 

Hastings, 

Lord Bardolph, 

Travers, 

Morton, 

Colevile, 

Warwick, 

Westmoreland, 

Surrey, 

Gower, \ Of the King's Party 

Harcourt, 

[Blunt], 

Lord Chief Justice, 

[Servant to the Lord Chief Justice] 

Poins, Falstaff, Bardolph, Pistol, Peto, Page, Irregular 

Humorists 
Shallow and Silence, Both Country Justices 
Davy, servant to Shallow 
Fang and Snare, two sergeants 
Mouldy, Shadow, Wart, Feeble, Bullcalf, Country 

Soldiers 
[Porter at Wark worth Castle] 
[Francis, a Drawer] 
Drawers, Beadles, Grooms 
[Lords and Attendants, Officers and Soldiers] 

Northumberland's Wife 
Percy's Widow 
Hostess Quickly 
Doll Tearsheet 
Epilogue 

Dramatis Personae; cf. App. C Opposites: adversaries 

Irregular: lawless, unconventional Drawer: waiter 



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King Henry the Fourth 

INDUCTION 

[Warhworth. Before Northumberland's Castle] 
Enter Rumour, painted full of tongues. 

Rum. Open your ears; for which of you will stop 
The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks? 
I, from the orient to the drooping west. 
Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold 4 

The acts commenced on this ball of earth: 
Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, 
The which in every language I pronounce, 
Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. 8 

I speak of peace, while covert enmity 
Under the smile of safety wounds the world: 
And who but Rumour, who but only I, 
Make fearful musters and prepar'd defence, 12 

Whilst the big year, swoln with some other grief, 
Is thought with child by the stern tyrant war, 
And no such matter? Rumour is a pipe 
Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures, 16 

And of so easy and so plain a stop 
That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, 
The still-discordant wavering multitude, 
Can play upon it. But what need I thus 20 

My well-known body to anatomize 
Among my household ? Why is Rumour here ? 

S. d. Enter Rumour, etc.; cf. n. 2 vent: aperture 4 still: always 

17 stop: hole in wind instrument by which difference of pitch is 
obtained 



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1 run before King Harry's victory; 

Who in a bloody field by Shrewsbury 24 

Hath beaten down young Hotspur and his troops, 
Quenching the flame of bold rebellion 
Even with the rebels' blood. But what mean I 
To speak so true at first? my office is 28 

To noise abroad that Harry Monmouth fell 
Under the wrath of noble Hotspur's sword, 
And that the king before the Douglas' rage 
Stoop'd his anointed head as low as death. 32 

This have I rumour'd through the peasant towns 
Between the royal field of Shrewsbury 
And this worm-eaten hole of ragged stone, 
Where Hotspur's father, old Northumberland, 36 
Lies crafty-sick. The posts come tiring on, 
And not a man of them brings other news 
Than they have learn'd of me: from Rumour's tongues 
They bring smooth comforts false, worse than true 
wrongs. Exit. 40 

ACT FIRST 

Scene One 

[The Same] 

Enter Lord Bardolph, at one door. 

L. Bard. Who keeps the gate here ? ho ! 

[Enter the Porter above.] 

Where is the earl? 
Port. What shall I say you are? 

24 Shrewsbury; cf. n. 29 Harry Monmouth; cf. n. 

33 peasant: provincial 35 hole; cf. n. 

37 crafty-sick: feigning sickness tiring: riding until they ere tired 

2 What: who 



King Henry the Fourth, I. i 



L. Bard. Tell thou the earl 

That the Lord Bardolph doth attend him here. 

Port. His Lordship is walk'd forth into the 
orchard: 4 

Please it your honour knock but at the gate, 
And he himself will answer. 

Enter Northumberland. 

L. Bard. Here comes the earl. 

1 ^ North. What news, Lord Bardolph? every minute 
now 
Should be the father of some stratagem. 8 

The times are wild; contention, like a horse 
Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose 
And bears down all before him. 

L. Bard. Noble earl, 

I bring you certain news from Shrewsbury. 12 

North. Good, an God will! 

L. Bard. As good as heart can wish. 

The king is almost wounded to the death; 
And, in the fortune of my lord your son, 
Prince Harry slain outright; and both the Blunts 16 
Kill'd by the hand of Douglas ; young Prince John 
And Westmoreland and Stafford fled the field; 
And Harry Monmouth's brawn, the hulk Sir John, 
Is prisoner to your son : O ! such a day, 20 

So fought, so follow'd, and so fairly won, 
Came not till now to dignify the times 
Since Caesar's fortunes. 

North. How is this deriv'd? 

Saw you the field? came you from Shrewsbury? 24 

L. Bard. I spake with one, my lord, that came 
from thence; 

3 attend: await 4 orchard: garden 13 an: if 

19 brawn: the fleshy part of the body, especially the buttocks or the 

calf of the leg 21 follow'd: carried through 



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A gentleman well bred and of good name, 
That freely render'd me these news for true. 

North. Here comes my servant Travers, whom I 
sent 28 

On Tuesday last to listen after news. 

L. Bard. My lord, I over-rode him on the way ; 
And he is furnish'd with no certainties 
More than he haply may retail from me. 32 

Enter Trovers. 

North. Now, Travers, what good tidings comes 
with you? 

Tra. My lord, Sir John Umfrevile turn'd me back 
With joyful tidings; and, being better hors'd, 
Out-rode me. After him came spurring hard 36 

A gentleman, almost forspent with speed, 
That stopp'd by me to breathe his bloodied horse. 
He ask'd the way to Chester; and of him 
I did demand what news from Shrewsbury. 40 

He told me that rebellion had bad luck, 
And that young Harry Percy's spur was cold. 
With that he gave his able horse the head, 
And, bending forward, struck his armed heels 44 
Against the panting sides of his poor jade 
Up to the rowel-head, and, starting so, 
He seem'd in running to devour the way, 
Staying no longer question. 

North. Ha ! Again : 48 

Said he young Harry Percy's spur was cold? 
Of Hotspur, Coldspur? that rebellion 
Had met ill luck? 

L. Bard. My lord, I'll tell you what: 

If my young lord your son have not the day, 52 

30 over-rode : passed 37 forspent: exhausted 

43 able: active 48 Staying: awaiting question: talk 



King Henry the Fourth, I. i 



Upon mine honour, for a silken point 
I'll give my barony: never talk of it. 

North. Why should the gentleman that rode by 
Travers 
Give then such instances of loss? 

L. Bard. Who, he ? 56 

He was some hilding fellow that had stolen 
The horse he rode on, and, upon my life, 
Spoke at a venture. Look, here comes more news. 

Enter Morton. 

North. Yea, this man's brow, like to a title-leaf, 60 
Foretells the nature of a tragic volume: 
So looks the strond, whereon the imperious flood 
Hath left a witness'd usurpation. 
Say, Morton, didst thou come from Shrewsbury? 64 

Mor. I ran from Shrewsbury, my noble lord; 
Where hateful death put on his ugliest mask 
To fright our party. 

North. How doth my son, and brother? 

Thou tremblest, and the whiteness in thy cheek 68 
Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand. 
Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, 
So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, 
Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, 72 

And would have told him half his Troy was burn'd; 
But Priam found the fire ere he his tongue, 
And I my Percy's death ere thou report'st it. 
This thou wouldst say, 'Your son did thus and thus ; 76 
Your brother thus; so fought the noble Douglas'; 
Stopping my greedy ear with their bold deeds : 
But in the end, to stop mine ear indeed, 
Thou hast a sigh to blow away this praise, 80 

53 point: lacing, garter 57 hilding: worthless 

62 strond: shore 63 witness'd usurpation: traces of its usurpation 

69 apter: more ready 



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Ending with 'Brother, son, and all are dead.' 

Mor. Douglas is living, and your brother, yet; 
But, for my lord your son, — 

North. Why, he is dead. — 

See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath! 84 

He that but fears the thing he would not know 
Hath by instinct knowledge from others' eyes 
That what he fear'd is chanced. Yet speak, Morton: 
Tell thou thy earl his divination lies, 88 

And I will take it as a sweet disgrace 
And make thee rich for doing me such wrong. 

Mor. You are too great to be by me gainsaid; 
Your spirit is too true, your fears too certain. 92 

North. Yet, for all this, say not that Percy's dead. 
I see a strange confession in thine eye: 
Thou shak'st thy head, and hold'st it fear or sin 
To speak a truth. If he be slain, say so; 96 

The tongue offends not that reports his death: 
And he doth sin that doth belie the dead, 
Not he which says the dead is not alive. 
Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news 100 

Hath but a losing office, and his tongue 
Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, 
Remember'd knolling a departing friend. 

L. Bard. I cannot think, my lord, your son is 
dead. 104 

Mor. I am sorry I should force you to believe 
That which I would to God I had not seen ; 
But these mine eyes saw him in bloody state, 
Rendering faint quittance, wearied and out- 
breath'd, 108 

To Harry Monmouth; whose swift wrath beat down 
The never-daunted Percy to the earth, 

87 is chanced: has happened 108 quittance : return of blows 



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From whence with life he never more sprung up. 

In few, his death, — whose spirit lent a fire 112 

Even to the dullest peasant in his camp, — 

Being bruited once, took fire and heat away 

From the best-temper'd courage in his troops; 

For from his metal was his party steel'd; 116 

Which once in him abated, all the rest 

Turn'd on themselves, like dull and heavy lead: 

And as the thing that's heavy in itself, 

Upon enforcement flies with greatest speed, 120 

So did our men, heavy in Hotspur's loss, 

Lend to this weight such lightness with their fear 

That arrows fled not swifter toward their aim 

Than did our soldiers, aiming at their safety, 124 

Fly from the field. Then was that noble Worcester 

Too soon ta'en prisoner; and that furious Scot, 

The bloody Douglas, whose well-labouring sword 

Had three times slain the appearance of the king, 128 

'Gan vail his stomach, and did grace the shame 

Of those that turn'd their backs ; and in his flight, 

Stumbling in f ear, was took. The sum of all 

Is, that the king hath won, and hath sent out 132 

A speedy power to encounter you, my lord, 

Under the conduct of young Lancaster 

And Westmoreland. This is the news at full. 

North. For this I shall have time enough to 
mourn. 136 

In poison there is physic; and these news, 
Having been well, that would have made me sick, 
Being sick, have in some measure made me well: 
And as the wretch, whose fever-weaken'd joints, 140 

112 In few: in short 114 bruited: rumored 

116-118 Cf. n. 128 Cf.n. 

129 'Gan vail his stomach: began to lower his arrogant spirit 
did grace: reflected credit on, set in a good light 



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Like strengthless hinges, buckle under life, 
Impatient of his fit, breaks like a fire 
Out of his keeper's arms, even so my limbs, 
Weaken'd with grief, being now enrag'd with 
grief, 144 

Are thrice themselves. Hence, therefore, thou nice 

crutch ! 
A scaly gauntlet now, with joints of steel 
Must glove this hand: and hence, thou sickly quoif ! 
Thou art a guard too wanton for the head 148 

Which princes, flesh'd with conquest, aim to hit. 
Now bind my brows with iron; and approach 
The ragged'st hour that time and spite dare bring 
To frown upon the enrag'd Northumberland! 152 
Let heaven kiss earth ! now let not nature's hand 
Keep the wild flood confin'd! let order die! 
And let this world no longer be a stage 
To feed contention in a lingering act; 156 

But let one spirit of the first-born Cain 
Reign in all bosoms, that, each heart being set 
On bloody courses, the rude scene may end, 
And darkness be the burier of the dead! 160 

Tra. This strained passion doth you wrong, my 
lord. 

L. Bard. Sweet earl, divorce not wisdom from your 
honour. 

Mor. The lives of all your loving complices 
Lean on your health; the which, if you give o'er 164 
To stormy passion, must perforce decay. 

141 buckle: bend 144 grief : suffering grief : sorrow 

145 nice: dainty, effeminate 147 sickly quoif: sick man's hood 

148 wanton: effeminate 

149 flesh'd: made Herce by combat as a dog fed only on flesh 
151 ragged'st: roughest 

161 strained passion: exaggerated emotion 163 complices: allies 



King Henry the Fourth, I. i 9 

You cast the event of war, my noble lord, 
And summ'd the account of chance, before you said, 
'Let us make head.' It was your presurmise 168 

That in the dole of blows your son might drop: 
You knew he walk'd o'er perils, on an edge, 
More likely to fall in than to get o'er; 
You were advis'd his flesh was capable 172 

Of wounds and scars, and that his forward spirit 
Would lift him where most trade of danger rang'd: 
Yet did you say, 'Go forth' ; and none of this, 
Though strongly apprehended, could restrain 176 
The stiff-borne action: what hath then befallen, 
Or what hath this bold enterprise brought forth, 
More than that being which was like to be? 

L. Bard. We all that are engaged to this loss 180 
Knew that we ventur'd on such dangerous seas 
That if we wrought out life 'twas ten to one; 
And yet we ventur'd, for the gain propos'd 
Chok'd the respect of likely peril fear'd; 184 

And since we are o'erset, venture again. 
Come, we will all put forth, body and goods. 

Mor. 'Tis more than time: and, my most noble 
lord, 
I hear for certain, and do speak the truth, 188 

The gentle Archbishop of York is up, 
With well-appointed powers: he is a man 
Who with a double surety binds his followers. 
My lord your son had only but the corpse, 192 

But shadows and the shows of men to fight; 
For that same word, rebellion, did divide 
The action of their bodies from their souls; 

166-179 Cf. n. 166 cast the event: considered the outcome 

168 make head: raise an army 169 dole: distribution 

170 edge: dangerous narrow path 172 advis'd: aware 

177 stiff -borne: obstinately carried out 

180 engaged to : involved in 184 respect: consideration 

190 well-appointed: well-equipped 



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And they did fight with queasiness, constrain'd, 196 

As men drink potions, that their weapons only 

Seem'd on our side: but, for their spirits and souls, 

This word, rebellion, it had froze them up, 

As fish are in a pond. But now the bishop 200 

Turns insurrection to religion: 

Suppos'd sincere and holy in his thoughts, 

He's follow'd both with body and with mind, 

And doth enlarge his rising with the blood 204 

Of fair King Richard, scrap'd from Pomfret stones; 

Derives from heaven his quarrel and his cause; 

Tells them he doth bestride a bleeding land, 

Gasping for life under great Bolingbroke; 208 

And more and less do flock to follow him. 

North. I knew of this before; but, to speak truth, 
This present grief had wip'd it from my mind. 
Go in with me; and counsel every man 212 

The aptest way for safety and revenge: 
Get posts and letters, and make friends with speed: 
Never so few, and never yet more need. Exeunt. 

Scene Two 
[London. A Street] 

Enter Sir John [Falstaff,] with his Page bearing his 
sword and buckler. 

Fal. Sirrah, you giant, what says the doctor 
to my water? 

Page. He said, sir, the water itself was a good 
healthy water; but, for the party that owed it, 4 
he might have moe diseases than he knew for. 

196 queasiness: squeamishness 204, 205 Cf. n. 

204 enlarge: widen the scope or appeal 208 Bolingbroke; cf. n. 

209 more and less: high and low 214 make: collect 
4 owed: owned 



King Henry the Fourth, I. ii 1 1 

Fal. Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at 
me: the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, 
man, is not able to invent anything that tends 8 
to laughter, more than I invent or is invented 
on me: I am not only witty in myself, but the 
cause that wit is in other men. I do here walk 
before thee like a sow that hath overwhelmed all 12 
her litter but one. If the prince put thee into 
my service for any other reason than to set me 
off, why then I have no judgment. Thou whore- 
son mandrake, thou art fitter to be worn in my 16 
cap than to wait at my heels. I was never 
manned with an agate till now; but I will set 
you neither in gold nor silver, but in vile apparel, 
and send you back again to your master, for a 20 
jewel; the juvenal, the prince your master, whose 
chin is not yet fledged. I will sooner have a 
beard grow in the palm of my hand than he shall 
get one on his cheek ; and yet he will not stick 24 
to say, his face is a face-royal: God may finish it 
when he will, it is not a hair amiss yet: he may 
keep it still as a face-royal, for a barber shall 
never earn sixpence out of it ; and yet he'll 28 
be crowing as if he had writ man ever since his 
father was a bachelor. He may keep his own 
grace, but he is almost out of mine, I can assure 
him. What said Master Dombledon about the 32 
satin for my short cloak and my slops? 

Page. He said, sir, you should procure him 
better assurance than Bardolph; he would not 

6 gird : jeer 

15 whoreson: a coarse term of endearment (as here) or of con- 
tempt (as in I. 30) 

16 mandrake: a poisonous plant whose forked root was supposed to 
resemble the human form 18 manned with an agate; cf. n. 

21 juvenal: used jocularly for 'youth' 25 face-royal; cf. n. 

29 writ man: enrolled himself a man 33 slops: loose breeches 



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take his bond and yours : he liked not the 36 
security. 

Fal. Let him be damned like the glutton ! Pray 
God his tongue be hotter! A whoreson Achito- 
phel ! a rascally yea- forsooth knave ! to bear a 40 
gentleman in hand, and then stand upon security. 
The whoreson smooth-pates do now wear noth- 
ing but high shoes, and bunches of keys at their 
girdles; and if a man is through with them in 44 
honest taking up, then they must stand upon 
security. I had as lief they would put ratsbane 
in my mouth as offer to stop it with security. I 
looked a' should have sent me two and twenty 48 
yards of satin, as I am a true knight, and he 
sends me security. Well, he may sleep in secur- 
ity; for he hath the horn of abundance, and the 
lightness of his wife shines through it : and yet 52 
cannot he see, though he have his own lanthorn 
to light him. Where's Bardolph? 

Page. He's gone into Smithfield to buy your 
worship a horse. 56 

Fal. I bought him in Paul's, and he'll buy 
me a horse in Smithfield: an I could get me 
but a wife in the stews, I were manned, horsed, 
and wived. 60 

Enter Chief Justice and Servant. 

Page. Sir, here comes the nobleman that 
committed the prince for striking him about 
Bardolph. 

Fal. Wait close; I will not see him. 64 

38 glutton; cf. n. 39 Achitophel; cf. n. 

40 yea-f orsooth knave ; cf. n. 

bear . . . in hand: delude with false hopes 
42 smooth-pates: roundheads, or Puritanical citizen class 
44 through: serious 45 taking up: obtaining goods on trust 

48 a': he 51-54 Cf. n. 57 Paul's; cf. n. 61, 62 Cf. n. 



King Henry the Fourth, Z. ii 13 

QjuaJ&^o Ch.Just. What's he that goes there? 

Ser. Falstaff, an 't please your lordship. 

Ch. Just. He that was in question for the 
robbery ? 68 

Ser. He, my lord; but he hath since done 
good service at Shrewsbury, and, as I hear, is 
now going with some charge to the Lord John 
of Lancaster. 72 

Ch.Just. What, to York? Call him back 
again. 

Ser. Sir John Falstaff! 

Fal. Boy, tell him I am deaf. 76 

Page. You must speak louder, my master is 
deaf. 

Ch. Just. I am sure he is, to the hearing of 
anything good. Go, pluck him by the elbow ; I 80 
must speak with him. 

Ser. Sir John! 

Fal. What ! a young knave, and beg ! Is there 
not wars ? is there not employment ? doth not 84 
the king lack subjects? do not the rebels want 
soldiers? Though it be a shame to be on any 
side but one, it is worse shame to beg than to be 
on the worst side, were it worse than the name 88 
of rebellion can tell how to make it. 

Ser. You mistake me, sir. 

Fal. Why, sir, did I say you were an honest 
man ? setting my knighthood and my soldier- 92 
ship aside, I had lied in my throat if I had 
said so. 

Ser. I pray you, sir, then set your knighthood 
and your soldiership aside, and give me leave to 96 

71 charge: military command 



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tell you you lie in your throat if you say I 
am any other than an honest man. 

Fal. I give thee leave to tell me so! I lay 
aside that which grows to me! If thou gett'st 100 
any leave of me, hang me: if thou takest leave, 
thou wert better be hanged. You hunt counter: 
hence! avaunt! 

Ser. Sir, my lord would speak with you. 104 

Ch. Just. Sir John Falstaff, a word with 
you. 

Fal. My good lord! God give your lordship 
good time of day. I am glad to see your lord- 108 
ship abroad ; I heard say your lordship was sick : 
I hope your lordship goes abroad by advice. 
Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, 
hath yet some smack of age in you, some relish 112 
of the saltness of time; and I most humbly be- 
seech your lordship to have a reverend care of 
your health. 

Ch. Just. Sir John, I sent for you before your 116 
expedition to Shrewsbury. 

Fal. An 't please your lordship, I hear his 
majesty is returned with some discomfort from 
Wales. 120 

Ch. Just. I talk not of his majesty. You 
would not come when I sent for you. 

Fal. And I hear, moreover, his highness is 
fallen into this same whoreson apoplexy. 124 

Ch. Just. Well, God mend him ! I pray you, 
let me speak with you. 

Fal. This apoplexy is, as I take it, a kind of 
lethargy, an 't please your lordship ; a kind of 128 
sleeping in the blood, a whoreson tingling. 

102 hunt counter; cf. n. 



King Henry the Fourth, I. ii 15 

Ch.Just. What tell you me of it? be it as 
it is. 

Fal. It hath it original from much grief, 132 
from study and perturbation of the brain. I 
have read the cause of his effects in Galen: it is 
a kind of deafness. 

Ch. Just. I think you are fallen into the dis- 136 
ease, for you hear not what I say to you. 

Fal. Very well, my lord, very well: rather, 
an 't please you, it is the disease of not listening, 
the malady of not marking, that I am troubled 140 
withal. 

Ch. Just. To punish you by the heels would 
amend the attention of your ears; and I care 
not if I do become your physician. 144 

Fal. I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so 
patient: your lordship may minister the potion 
of imprisonment to me in respect of poverty; 
but how I should be your patient to follow your 148 
prescriptions, the wise may make some dram of 
a scruple, or indeed a scruple itself. 

Ch. Just. I sent for you, when there were 
matters against you for your life, to come speak 152 
with me. 

Fal. As I was then advised by my learned 
counsel in the laws of this land-service, I did 
not come. 156 

Ch.Just. Well, the truth is, Sir John, you 
live in great infamy. 

Fal. He that buckles him in my belt cannot 
live in less. 160 

130 What: why 132 it: its 134 his- its 

142 punish by the heels: commit to prison; originally, to the stocks 

147 m respect of: on account of 155 land-service: military service 



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Ch. Just. Your means are very slender, and 
your waste is great. 

Fal. I would it were otherwise: I would my 
means were greater and my waist slenderer. 164 

Ch. Just. You have misled the youthful prince. 

Fal. The young prince hath misled me: I 
am the fellow with the great belly, and he my 
dog. 168 

Ch. Just. Well, I am loath to gall a new-healed 
wound: your day's service at Shrewsbury hath a 
little gilded over your night's exploit on Gads- 
hill : you may thank the unquiet time for your 172 
quiet o'er-posting that action. 

Fal. My lord! 

Ch. Just. But since all is well, keep it so : 
wake not a sleeping wolf. 176 

Fal. To wake a wolf is as bad as to smell a 
fox. 

Ch.Just. What! you are as a candle, the 
better part burnt out. 180 

Fal. A wassail candle, my lord; all tallow: 
if I did say of wax, my growth would approve 
the truth. 

Ch. Just. There is not a white hair on your 184 
face but should have his effect of gravity. 

Fal. His effect of gravy, gravy, gravy. 

Ch. Just. You follow the young prince up 
and down, like his ill angel. 188 

Fal. Not so, my lord; your ill angel is light, 
but I hope he that looks upon me will take me 
without weighing: and yet, in some respects, I 
grant, I cannot go, I cannot tell. Virtue is of 192 

166-168 Cftti. 173 o'er-posting: getting over rapidly 

181 wassail candle: large candle used at a feast 

182 wax; cf. n. approve: prove 

188 ill: evil 189-192 Cf. n. 



King Henry the Fourth, I. ii 17 

so little regard in these costermonger times that 
true valour is turned bear-herd: pregnancy is 
made a tapster, and hath his quick wit wasted 
in giving reckonings : all the other gifts apperti- 196 
nent to man, as the malice of this age shapes 
them, are not worth a gooseberry. You that are 
old consider not the capacities of us that are 
young ; you measure the heat of our livers with 200 
the bitterness of your galls; and we that are in 
the vaward of our youth, I must confess, are 
wags too. 

Ch. Just. Do you set down your name in the 204 
scroll of youth, that are written down old with 
all the characters of age? Have you not a moist 
eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, 
a decreasing leg, an increasing belly ? Is not 208 
your voice broken, your wind short, your chin 
double, your wit single, and every part about 
you blasted with antiquity, and will you yet call 
yourself young? Fie, fie, fie, Sir John! 212 

Fal. My lord, I was born about three of the 
clock in the afternoon, with a white head, and 
something a round belly. For my voice, I have 
lost it with hollaing, and singing of anthems. 216 
To approve my youth further, I will not: the 
truth is, I am only old in judgment and under- 
standing; and he that will caper with me for a 
thousand marks, let him lend me the money, 220 
and have at him! For the box o' the ear that 
the prince gave you, he gave it like a rude prince, 
and you took it like a sensible lord. I have 

193 costermonger: commercial 

194 bear-herd: one who leads about a tame bear 

pregnancy: readiness of wit 196 reckonings: bills 

202 vaward: vanguard 210 single: thin 

220 marks: a mark was worth about thirteen shillings 



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checked him for it, and the young lion repents ; 224 
marry, not in ashes and sackcloth, but in new 
silk and old sack. 

Ch. Just. Well, God send the prince a better 
companion ! 228 

Fed. God send the companion a better prince ! 
I cannot rid my hands of him. 

Ch. Just. Well, the king hath severed you 
and Prince Harry. I hear you are going with 232 
Lord John of Lancaster against the archbishop 
and the Earl of Northumberland. 

Fed. Yea; I thank your pretty sweet wit for 
it. But look you pray, all you that kiss my lady 236 
Peace at home, that our armies join not in a hot 
day; for, by the Lord, I take but two shirts out 
with me, and I mean not to sweat extraordinarily : 
if it be a hot day, and I brandish anything but 240 
my bottle, I would I might never spit white again. 
There is not a dangerous action can peep out 
his head but I am thrust upon it. Well, I can- 
not last ever. But it was always yet the trick of 244 
our English nation, if they have a good thing, to 
make it too common. If you will needs say I am 
an old man, you should give me rest. I would 
to God my name were not so terrible to the 248 
enemy as it is : I were better to be eaten to death 
with rust than to be scoured to nothing with 
perpetual motion. 

Ch. Just. Well, be honest, be honest ; and 252 
God bless your expedition. 

Fal. Will your lordship lend me a thousand 
pound to furnish me forth? 

Ch. Just. Not a penny ; not a penny ; you are 256 

226 sack: Spanish wine 241 spit white; cf. n. 



King Henry the Fourth, I.ii 19 

too impatient to bear crosses. Fare you well: 
commend me to my cousin Westmoreland. 

[Exeunt Chief Justice and Servant."] 

Fal. If I do, fillip me with a three-man beetle. 
A man can no more separate age and covetous- 260 
ness than a' can part young limbs and lechery; 
but the gout galls the one, and the pox pinches 
the other; and so both the degrees prevent my 
curses. Boy ! 264 

Page. Sir! 

Fal. What money is in my purse? 

Page. Seven groats and twopence. 

Fal. I can get no remedy against this con- 268 
sumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers 
and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable. 
Go bear this letter to my Lord of Lancaster; 
this to the prince ; this to the Earl of Westmore- 272 
land; and this to old Mistress Ursula, whom I 
have weekly sworn to marry since I perceived 
the first white hair on my chin. About it: you 
know where to find me. A pox of this gout ! 276 
or, a gout of this pox ! for the one or the 
other plays the rogue with my great toe. 'Tis 
no matter if I do halt; I have the wars for my 
colour, and my pension shall seem the more 280 
reasonable. A good wit will make use of any- 
thing; I will turn diseases to commodity. Exeunt. 

257 Cf.n. 259 Cf.n. 263 prevent: anticipate 

267 groat: a coin worth fourpence 279 halt: limp 

280 colour: excuse 
282 commodity: merchandise to be sold at a profit 



20 The Second Part of 

Scene Three 
[York. The Archbishop's Palace] 

Enter Archbishop, Hastings, Mowbray, and Lord 
Bardolph. 

Arch. Thus have you heard our cause and known 
our means; 
And, my most noble friends, I pray you all, 
Speak plainly your opinions of our hopes: 
And first, Lord Marshal, what say you to it? 4 

Mowb. I well allow the occasion of our arms; 
But gladly would be better satisfied 
How in our means we should advance ourselves 
To look with forehead bold and big enough 8 

Upon the power and puissance of the king. 

Hast. Our present musters grow upon the file 
To five-and-twenty thousand men of choice; 
And our supplies live largely in the hope 12 

Of great Northumberland, whose bosom burns 
With an incensed fire of injuries. 

L. Bard. The question, then, Lord Hastings, stand- 
eth thus: 
Whether our present five-and-twenty thousand 16 
May hold up head without Northumberland. 

Hast. With him, we may. 

L. Bard. Ay, marry, there's the point: 

But if without him we be thought too feeble, 
My judgment is, we should not step too far 20 

Till we had his assistance by the hand; 
For in a theme so bloody-fac'd as this, 
Conjecture, expectation, and surmise 
Of aids incertain should not be admitted. 24 

10 file: muster roll 12 supplies: reinforcements 



King Henry the Fourth, I. Hi 21 

Arch. 'Tis very true, Lord Bardolph; for, indeed 
It was young Hotspur's case at Shrewsbury. 

L. Bard. It was, my lord ; who lin'd himself with 
hope, 
Eating the air on promise of supply, 28 

Flattering himself with project of a power 
Much smaller than the smallest of his thoughts; 
And so, with great imagination 

Proper to madmen, led his powers to death, 32 

And winking leap'd into destruction. 

Hast. But, by your leave, it never yet did hurt 
To lay down likelihoods and forms of hope. 

L. Bard. Yes, if this present quality of war, — 36 
Indeed the instant action, — a cause on foot, 
Lives so in hope, as in an early spring 
We see the appearing buds ; which, to prove fruit, 
Hope gives not so much warrant as despair 40 

That frosts will bite them. When we mean to build, 
We first survey the plot, then draw the model; 
And when we see the figure of the house, 
Then must we rate the cost of the erection; 44 

Which if we find outweighs ability, 
What do we then but draw anew the model 
In fewer offices, or at last desist 

To build at all ? Much more, in this great work, — 48 
Which is almost to pluck a kingdom down 
And set another up, — should we survey 
The plot of situation and the model, 
Consent upon a sure foundation, 52 

Question surveyors, know our own estate, 
How able such a work to undergo, 
To weigh against his opposite; or else, 

27 lin'd: strengthened 

29, 30 project . . . smaller: anticipation of an army actually much 

smaller 33 winking: with eyes closed 36-41 Cf.n. 

43 figure : plan 47 offices: domestic quarters 53-55 Cf.n. 



22 The Second Part of 

We fortify in paper, and in figures, 56 

Using the names of men instead of men: 
Like one that draws the model of a house 
Beyond his power to build it; who, half through, 
Gives o'er and leaves his part-created cost 60 

A naked subject to the weeping clouds, 
And waste for churlish winter's tyranny. 

Hast. Grant that our hopes, yet likely of fair 
birth, 
Should be still-born, and that we now possess'd 64 
The utmost man of expectation; 
I think we are a body strong enough, 
Even as we are, to equal with the king. 

L. Bard. What ! is the king but five-and-twenty 
thousand ? 68 

Hast. To us no more; nay, not so much, Lord 
Bardolph. 
For his divisions, as the times do brawl, 
Are in three heads: one power against the French, 
And one against Glendower; perforce, a third 72 
Must take up us: so is the unfirm king 
In three divided, and his coffers sound 
With hollow poverty and emptiness. 

Arch. That he should draw his several strengths 
together 76 

And come against us in full puissance, 
Need not be dreaded. 

Hast. If he should do so, 

He leaves his back unarm'd, the French and Welsh 
Baying him at the heels: never fear that. 80 

L. Bard. Who is it like should lead his forces 

hither ? 
Hast. The Duke of Lancaster and Westmoreland; 

60 part-created cost: costly fragment 62 churlish : rough 

70 as . . . brawl: as the turbulent times dictate 81 like: probable 



King Henry the Fourth, I. in 23 

Against the Welsh, himself and Harry Monmouth: 
But who is substituted 'gainst the French 84 

I have no certain notice. 

Arch. Let us on 

And publish the occasion of our arms. 
The commonwealth is sick of their own choice; 
Their over-greedy love hath surfeited. 88 

A habitation giddy and unsure 
Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart. 
O thou fond many ! with what loud applause 
Didst thou beat heaven with blessing Bolingbroke 92 
Before he was what thou wouldst have him be: 
And being now trimm'd in thine own desires, 
Thou, beastly feeder, art so full of him 
That thou provok'st thyself to cast him up. 96 

So, so, thou common dog, didst thou disgorge 
Thy glutton bosom of the royal Richard, 
And now thou wouldst eat thy dead vomit up, 
And howl'st to find it. What trust is in these 
times ? loo 

They that, when Richard liv'd, would have him die, 
Are now become enamour'd on his grave: 
Thou, that threw'st dust upon his goodly head, 
When through proud London he came sighing on 104 
After the admired heels of Bolingbroke, 
Cry'st now, 'O earth i yield us that king again, 
And take thou this !' O, thoughts of men accurst ! 
Past and to come seem best ; things present worst. 108 

Mowb. Shall we go draw our numbers and set on? 

Hast. We are time's subjects, and time bids be 
gone. [Exeunt.] 

91 fond many: foolish multitude 

94 trimm'd . . . desires: supplied with what thou didst desire 

109 draw: assemble 



24 The Second Part of 

ACT SECOND 

Scene One 

[London. A Street'] 

Enter Hostess [Quickly of the Tavern], with two 
Officers, Fang and Snare. 

Host. Master Fang, have you entered the 
action ? 

Fang. It is entered. 

Host. Where's your yeoman ? Is 't a lusty 4 
yeoman? will a' stand to 't? 

Fang. Sirrah! — where's Snare? 

Host. O Lord, ay! good Master Snare. 

Snare. Here, here. 8 

Fang. Snare, we must arrest Sir John Fal- 
staff. 

Host. Yea, good Master Snare ; I have entered 
him and all. 12 

Snare. It may chance cost some of us our 
lives, for he will stab. 

Host. Alas the day! take heed of him: he 
stabbed me in mine own house, and that most 16 
beastly. In good faith, a' cares not what 
mischief he doth if his weapon be out: he 
will foin like any devil; he will spare neither 
man, woman, nor child. 20 

Fang. If I can close with him I care not for 
his thrust. 

Host. No, nor I neither: I'll be at your 
elbow. 24 

4 yeoman: sheriff's officer 19 foin: thrust (in fencing) 



King Henry the Fourth, II. i 25 

Fang. An I but fist him once; an a' come but 
within my vice, — 

Host. I am undone by his going; I warrant 
you, he's an infinitive thing upon my score. 28 
Good Master Fang, hold him sure: good Master 
Snare, let him not 'scape. A' comes continuantly 
to Pie-corner — saving your manhoods — to buy 
a saddle ; and he's indited to dinner to the Lub- 32 
ber's Head in Lumbert Street, to Master Smooth's 
the silkman : I pray ye, since my exion is entered, 
and my case so openly known to the world, let 
him be brought in to his answer. A hundred 36 
mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to 
bear; and I have borne, and borne, and borne; 
and have been fubbed off, and fubbed off, and 
fubbed off, from this day to that day, that it is a 40 
shame to be thought on. There is no honesty in 
such dealing; unless a woman should be made 
an ass, and a beast, to bear every knave's wrong. 
Yonder he comes ; and that arrant malmsey- 44 
nose knave, Bardolph, with him. Do your offices, 
do your offices, Master Fang and Master Snare; 
do me, do me, do me your offices. 

Enter Falstaff, and Bardolph. 

Fal. How now! whose mare's dead? what's 48 
the matter? 

Fang. Sir John, I arrest you at the suit of 
Mistress Quickly. 

Fal. Away, varlets ! Draw, Bardolph: cut 52 

26 vice : figuratively, grip 

28 infinitive: infinite {Dame Quickly' s more obvious errors in speech 

are not, hereafter, glossed) upon my score: in my debt 

32, 33 Lubber's . . . Street: Libbard's, i.e., Leopard's, Head Inn, in 

Lombard Street 34 exion: Dame Quickly 's error for 'action' 

37 one; cf. n. 39 fubbed: fobbed, i.e., put off deceitfully 

44, 45 malmsey-nose: red-nosed 



26 The Second Part of 

me off the villain's head; throw the quean in 
the channel. 

Host. Throw me in the channel! I'll throw 
thee in the channel. Wilt thou ? wilt thou ? thou 56 
bastardly rogue ! Murder, murder ! Ah, thou 
honey-suckle villain! wilt thou kill God's officers 
and the king's ? Ah, thou honey-seed rogue ! 
thou art a honey-seed, a man-queller, and a 60 
woman-queller. 

Fal. Keep them off, Bardolph. 

Fang. A rescue ! a rescue ! 

Host. Good people, bring a rescue or two ! 64 
Thou wo't, wo't thou? thou wo't, wo't ta? do, 
do, thou rogue! do, thou hemp-seed! 

Fal. Away, you scullion ! you rampallian ! 
you fustilarian ! I'll tickle your catastrophe. 68 

Enter Chief Justice. 

Ch. Just. What is the matter ? keep the peace 
here, ho ! 

Host. Good my lord, be good to me! I be- 
seech you, stand to me! 72 
Ch. Just. How now, Sir John ! what ! are you 
brawling here ? 
Doth this become your place, your time and business ? 
You should have been well on your way to York. 
Stand from him, fellow: wherefore hang'st upon 
him ? 76 
Host. O, my most worshipful lord, an 't 
please your grace, I am a poor widow of East- 
cheap, and he is arrested at my suit. 

Ch. Just. For what sum? 80 

53 quean: hussy 54 channel: kennel, i.e., gutter 

58 honey-suckle: Dame Quickly's error for 'homicidal' 

59 honey -seed : homicide 60 man-queller: man-killer 
65 wo't: wouldst ta: thou 67, 68 Cf. n. 



King Henry the Fourth, II. i 2 ? 

Host. It is more than for some, my lord; it 
is for all I have. He hath eaten me out of 
house and home; he hath put all my substance 
into that fat belly of his : but I will have some of 84 
it out again, or I will ride thee o' nights like the 
mare. 

Fal. I think I am as like to ride the mare if 
I have any vantage of ground to get up. 88 

Ch.Just. How comes this, Sir John? Fie! 
what man of good temper would endure this 
tempest of exclamation? Are you not ashamed 
to enforce a poor widow to so rough a course to 92 
come by her own? 

Fal. What is the gross sum that I owe thee? 

Host. Marry, if thou wert an honest man, 
thyself and the money too. Thou didst swear 96 
to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my 
Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea- 
coal fire, upon Wednesday in Wheeson week, 
when the prince broke thy head for liking his 100 
father to a singing-man of Windsor, thou didst 
swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, 
to marry me and make me my lady thy wife. 
Canst thou deny it ? Did not goodwif e Keech, 104 
the butcher's wife, come in then and call me 
gossip Quickly? coming in to borrow a mess of 
vinegar; telling us she had a good dish of 
prawns ; whereby thou didst desire to eat some, 108 
whereby I told thee they were ill for a green 
wound? And didst thou not, when she was gone 
down stairs, desire me to be no more so famili- 

86 mare: nightmare 90 temper: character 

97 parcel-gilt : partly gilded 

98 sea-coal: mineral coal (brought by boat from Newcastle) 

99 Wheeson: IVhitsun 104 Keech: literally 'a lump of fat' 
109 green: fresh 



28 The Second Part of 

arity with such poor people ; saying that ere 112 
long they should call me madam? And didst 
thou not kiss me and bid me fetch thee thirty 
shillings? I put thee now to thy book-oath: 
deny it if thou canst. 116 

Fal. My lord, this is a poor mad soul; and 
she says up and down the town that her eldest 
son is like you. She hath been in good case, 
and the truth is, poverty hath distracted her. 120 
But for those foolish officers, I beseech you I 
may have redress against them. 

Ch. Just. Sir John, Sir John, I am well ac- 
quainted with your manner of wrenching the 124 
true cause the false way. It is not a confident 
brow, nor the throng of words that come with 
such more than impudent sauciness from you, 
can thrust me from a level consideration ; you 128 
have, as it appears to me, practised upon the 
easy-yielding spirit of this woman, and made 
her serve your uses both in purse and in person. 

Host. Yea, in troth, my lord. 132 

Ch. Just. Prithee, peace. Pay her the debt 
you owe her, and unpay the villainy you have 
done her: the one you may do with sterling 
money, and the other with current repentance. 136 

Fal. My lord, I will not undergo this sneap 
without reply. You call honourable boldness 
impudent sauciness: if a man will make curtsy, 
and say nothing, he is virtuous. No, my lord, 140 
my humble duty remembered, I will not be your 
suitor: I say to you, I do desire deliverance from 
these officers, being upon hasty employment in 
the king's affairs. 144 

119 case: circumstances 128 level: steady 

136 current: genuine, with pun upon 'sterling' 137 sneap: snub 



King Henry the Fourth, II. i 



29 



Ch. Just. You speak as having power to do 
wrong: but answer in the effect of your reputa- 
tion, and satisfy the poor woman. 

Fal. Come hither, hostess. 148 

[Taking her aside.] 

Enter Master Gower. 

Ch.Just. Now, Master Gower! what news? 
Gow. The king, my lord, and Harry Prince of 

Wales 
Are near at hand: the rest the paper tells. 

[Gives a letter.] 

Fal. As I am a gentleman. 152 

Host. Faith, you said so before. 

Fal. As I am a gentleman. Come, no more 
words of it. 

Host. By this heavenly ground I tread on, 156 
I must be fain to pawn both my plate and the 
tapestry of my dining-chambers. 

Fal. Glasses, glasses, is the only drinking: 
and for thy walls, a pretty slight drollery, or the 160 
story of the Prodigal, or the German hunting in 
water-work, is worth a thousand of these bed- 
hangings and these fly-bitten tapestries. Let it 
be ten pound if thou canst. Come, an it were 164 
not for thy humours, there's not a better wench 
in England. Go, wash thy face, and draw the 
action. Come, thou must not be in this humour 
with me; dost not know me? Come, come, I 168 
know thou wast set on to this. 

Host. Prithee, Sir John, let it be but twenty 

145 Cf. n. 146 in the effect of: in a manner suitable to 

159 Cf. n. 160 drollery: humorou s painting 

161 German hunting: German hunting-scene 

162 water-work: water colors 165 humours: caprices 
166 draw: withdraw 



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nobles: i' faith, I am loath to pawn my plate, 
so God save me, la! 172 

Fal. Let it alone; I'll make other shift: 
you'll be a fool still. 

Host. Well, you shall have it, though I pawn 
my gown. I hope you'll come to supper. You'll 176 
pay me all together? 

Fal. Will I live? [To Bardolph.] Go, with 
her, with her; hook on, hook on. 

Host. Will you have Doll Tearsheet meet 180 
you at supper? 

Fal. No more words; let's have her. 

Exeunt Hostess, [Bardolph, Page,] 
and Sergeant[s]. 

Ch. Just. I have heard better news. 

Fal. What's the news, my lord? 1S4 

Ch. Just. Where lay the king last night ? 

Gow. At Basingstoke, my lord. 

Fal. I hope, my lord, all's well: what is the 
news, my lord? 188 

Ch. Just. Come all his forces back? 
Gow. No; fifteen hundred foot, five hundred horse, 
Are march'd up to my Lord of Lancaster, 
Against Northumberland and the archbishop. 192 

Fal. Comes the king back from Wales, my noble 

lord? 
Ch. Just. You shall have letters of me presently. 
Come, go along with me, good Master Gower. 

Fal. My lord! 196 

Ch. Just. What's the matter ? 

Fal. Master Gower, shall I entreat you with 
me to dinner? 

171 nobles: gold coins worth about six shillings 
194 presently : immediately 



King Henry the Fourth, II. ii 31 

Gow. I must wait upon my good lord here ; 200 
I thank you, good Sir John. 

Ch. Just. Sir John, you loiter here too long, 
being you are to take soldiers up in counties as 
you go. 204 

Fal. Will you sup with me, Master Gower? 

Ch. Just. What foolish master taught you 
these manners, Sir John? 

Fal. Master Gower, if they become me not, 208 
he was a fool that taught them me. This is the 
right fencing grace, my lord; tap for tap, and 
so part fair. 

Ch. Just. Now the Lord lighten thee ! thou 212 
art a great fool. Exeunt. 

Scene Two 

[The Same] 

Enter Prince Henry [and] Poins. 

Prince. Before God, I am exceeding weary. 

Poins. Is 't come to that? I had thought 
weariness durst not have attached one of so 
high blood. 4 

Prince. Faith, it does me, though it dis- 
colours the complexion of my greatness to ac- 
knowledge it. Doth it not show vilely in me to 
desire small beer? 8 

Poins. Why, a prince should not be so loosely 
studied as to remember so weak a composition. 

Prince. Belike then my appetite was not 
princely got ; for, by my troth, I do now re- 12 

210 Cf.n. 212 lighten: enlighten, used quibblingly 

3 attached: seised 

5 discolours the complexion of my greatness: makes me blush 

10 studied: inclined 



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member the poor creature, small beer. But, 
indeed, these humble considerations make me out 
of love with my greatness. What a disgrace is 
it to me to remember thy name, or to know 16 
thy face to-morrow ! or to take note how many 
pair of silk stockings thou hast; viz. these, and 
those that were thy peach-coloured ones ! or to 
bear the inventory of thy shirts ; as, one for 20 
superfluity, and another for use! But that the 
tennis-court-keeper knows better than I, for it 
is a low ebb of linen with thee when thou keepest 
not racket there ; as thou hast not done a great 24 
while, because the rest of thy low-countries have 
made a shift to eat up thy holland: and God 
knows whether those that bawl out the ruins 
of thy linen shall inherit his kingdom ; but the 28 
midwives say the children are not in the fault; 
whereupon the world increases, and kindreds 
are mightily strengthened. 

Poins. How ill it follows, after you have 32 
laboured so hard, you should talk so idly! Tell 
me, how many good young princes would do 
so, their fathers being so sick as yours at this 
time is? 36 

Prince. Shall I tell thee one thing, Poins? 

Poins. Yes, faith, and let it be an excellent 
good thing. 

Prince. It shall serve among wits of no higher 40 
breeding than thine. 

Poins. Go to; I stand the push of your one 
thing that you will tell. 

Prince. Marry, I tell thee, it is not meet that 44 
I should be sad, now my father is sick: albeit I 

25-31 Cf.n. 42 push: thrust 



King Henry the Fourth, II. ii 33 

could tell to thee, — as to one it pleases me, for 
fault of a better, to call my friend, — I could be 
sad, and sad indeed too. 48 

Poins. Very hardly upon such a subject. 

Prince. By this hand, thou thinkest me as 
far in the devil's book as thou and Falstaff for 
obduracy and persistency : let the end try the 52 
man. But I tell thee my heart bleeds inwardly 
that my father is so sick; and keeping such vile 
company as thou art hath in reason taken from 
me all ostentation of sorrow. 56 

Poins. The reason? 

Prince. What wouldst thou think of me if I 
should weep ? 

Poins. I would think thee a most princely 60 
hypocrite. 

Prince. It would be every man's thought; 
and thou art a blessed fellow to think as every 
man thinks : never a man's thought in the world 64 
keeps the road-way better than thine: every man 
would think me an hypocrite indeed. And what 
accites your most worshipful thought to think so ? 

Poins. Why, because you have been so lewd 68 
and so much engraffed to Falstaff. 

Prince. And to thee. 

Poins. By this light, I am well spoke on; I 
can hear it with mine own ears : the worst that 72 
they can say of me is that I am a second brother 
and that I am a proper fellow of my hands ; and 
those two things I confess I cannot help. By the 
mass, here comes Bardolph. 76 

Enter Bardolph and Page. 

67 accites: invites 68 lewd: worthless 

69 much engraffed : closely att ached 73 second brother: younger son 
74 proper fellow of my hands: good fellow with my fists 



34 The Second Part of 

Prince. And the boy that I gave Falstaff: a' 
had him from me Christian; and look, if the fat 
villain have not transformed him ape. 

Bard. God save your Grace ! 80 

Prince. And yours, most noble Bardolph. 

Poins. [To the Page.] Come, you virtuous ass, 
you bashful fool, must you be blushing? where- 
fore blush you now ? What a maidenly man-at- 84 
arms are you become ! Is 't such a matter to 
get a pottle-pot's maidenhead? 

Page. A' calls me even now, my lord, through 
a red lattice, and I could discern no part of his 88 
face from the window: at last, I spied his eyes, 
and methought he had made two holes in the 
ale-wife's new petticoat, and peeped through. 

Prince. Hath not the boy profited? 92 

Bard. Away, you whoreson upright rabbit, 
away! 

Page. Away, you rascally Althea's dream, 
away ! 96 

Prince. Instruct us, boy; what dream, boy? 

Page. Marry, my lord, Althea dreamed she 
was delivered of a firebrand; and therefore I call 
him her dream. 100 

Prince. A crown's worth of good interpreta- 
tion. There 'tis, boy. [Gives him money.] 

Poins. O ! that this good blossom could be 
kept from cankers. Well, there is sixpence to 104 
preserve thee. 

Bard. An you do not make him be hanged 
among you, the gallows shall have wrong. 

Prince. And how doth thy master, Bardolph? 108 

86 pottle-pot: izvo-quart tankard 88 red lattice: ale-house window 

95-100 Cf. n. 104 cankers: canker-worms 



King Henry the Fourth, II. ii 35 

Bard. Well, my lord. He heard of your 
Grace's coming to town: there's a letter for you. 

Poins. Delivered with good respect. And how 
doth the martleinas, your master? 112 

Bard. In bodily health, sir. 

Poins. Marry, the immortal part needs a 
physician; but that moves not him: though 
that be sick, it dies not. 116 

Prince. I do allow this wen to be as familiar 
with me as my dog; and he holds his place, for 
look you how he writes. 

Poins. [looking over the Prince's shoulder. ~\ 120 
'John Falstaff, knight,' — every man must know 
that, as oft as he has occasion to name himself: 
even like those that are kin to the king, for they 
never prick their finger but they say, 'There's 124 
some of the king's blood spilt.' 'How comes 
that?' says he that takes upon him not to con- 
ceive. The answer is as ready as a borrower's 
cap, 'I am the king's poor cousin, sir.' 128 

Prince. Nay, they will be kin to us, or they 
will fetch it from Japhet. But to the letter: 
'Sir John Falstaff, knight, to the son of the 
king nearest his father, Harry Prince of 132 
Wales, greeting.' 

Poins. Why, this is a certificate. 

Prince. Peace! 'I will imitate the honourable 
Romans in brevity:' 136 

Poins. He sure means brevity in breath, short- 
winded. 

Prince. 'I commend me to thee, I commend 

112 martlemas; cf. n. 117 wen: swelling, i.e., Falstaff 

126 takes upon him: pretends conceive: understand 

127, 128 borrower's cap; cf. n. 

130 fetch it from Japhet: trace kinship through Japhet, the son of 

Noah 
130 ff. Cf.n. 



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thee, and I leave thee. Be not too familiar with 140 
Poins; for he misuses thy favours so much that 
he swears thou art to marry his sister Nell. Re- 
pent at idle times as thou mayest, and so farewell. 

'Thine, by yea and no, — which is as 144 
much as to say, as thou usest him, 
Jack Falstaff, with my familiars; 
John, with my brothers and sisters, 
and Sir John with all Europe.' 148 

Poins. My lord, I'll steep this letter in sack 
and make him eat it. 

Prince. That's to make him eat twenty of 
his words. But do you use me thus, Ned? must 152 
I marry your sister? 

Poins. God send the wench no worse for- 
tune! — but I never said so. 

Prince. Well, thus we play the fools with the 
time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds 156 
and mock us. Is your master here in London? 

Bard. Yea, my lord. 

Prince. Where sups he? doth the old boar 
feed in the old frank? 160 

Bard. At the old place, my lord, in East- 
cheap. 

Prince. What company? 

Page. Ephesians, my lord, of the old church. 164 

Prince. Sup any women with him? 

Page. None, my lord, but old Mistress Quickly 
and Mistress Doll Tearsheet. 

Prince. What pagan may that be? 168 

Page. A proper gentlewoman, sir, and a kins- 
woman of my master's. 

Prince. Even such kin as the parish heifers 

160 frank: sty 164 Ephesians: slang term for jolly fellows 



King Henry the Fourth, II. Hi 37 

are to the town bull. Shall we steal upon them, 172 
Ned, at supper? 

Poins. I am your shadow, my lord; I'll 
follow you. 

Prince. Sirrah, you boy, and Bardolph ; no 176 
word to your master that I am yet come to 
town: there's for your silence. [Gives money.'] 

Bard. I have no tongue, sir. 

Page. And for mine, sir, I will govern it. 180 

Prince. Fare ye well; go. [Exeunt Bardolph 
and Page.] This Doll Tearsheet should be some 
road. 

Poins. I warrant you, as common as the way 
between Saint Albans and London. 185 

Prince. How might we see Falstaff bestow 
himself to-night in his true colours, and not 
ourselves be seen? 

Poins. Put on two leathern jerkins and 
aprons, and wait upon him at his table as 
drawers. 191 

Prince. From a god to a bull! a heavy 
descension! it was Jove's case. From a prince 
to a prentice! a low transformation! that shall 
be mine; for in every thing the purpose must 
weigh with the folly. Follow me, Ned. Exeunt. 

Scene Three 

[Warhworth. Before Northumberland's Castle] 

Enter Northumberland, his wife, and the wife to 
Harry Percy. 

North. I pray thee, loving wife, and gentle daugh- 
ter, 

186 bestow: behave 192, 193 Cf. n. 



38 The Second Part of 

Give even way unto my rough affairs: 
Put not you on the visage of the times, 
And be like them to Percy troublesome. 4 

Lady N. I have given over, I will speak no more : 
Do what you will; your wisdom be your guide. 

North. Alas ! sweet wife, my honour is at pawn ; 
And, but my going, nothing can redeem it. 8 

Lady P. O ! yet for God's sake, go not to these 
wars. 
The time was, father, that you broke your word 
When you were more endear'd to it than now; 
When your own Percy, when my heart's dear 
Harry, 12 

Threw many a northward look to see his father 
Bring up his powers; but he did long in vain. 
Who then persuaded you to stay at home? 
There were two honours lost, yours and your son's: 16 
For yours, the God of heaven brighten it! 
For his, it stuck upon him as the sun 
In the grey vault of heaven ; and by his light 
Did all the chivalry of England move 20 

To do brave acts : he was indeed the glass 
Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves: 
He had no legs, that practis'd not his gait; 
And speaking thick, which nature made his blemish, 24 
Became the accents of the valiant; 
For those that could speak low and tardily, 
Would turn their own perfection to abuse, 
To seem like him: so that, in speech, in gait, 28 

In diet, in affections of delight, 
In military rules, humours of blood, 
He was the mark and glass, copy and book, 
That f ashion'd others. And him, O wondrous him ! 32 

11 endear'd: bound 24 thick: fast 

29 affections of delight: favorite pastimes 30 blood: disposition 



King Henry the Fourth, II. Hi 39 

O miracle of men! him did you leave, — 

Second to none, unseconded by you, — 

To look upon the hideous god of war 

In disadvantage; to abide a field 36 

Where nothing but the sound of Hotspur's name 

Did seem defensible: so you left him. 

Never, O! never, do his ghost the wrong 

To hold your honour more precise and nice 40 

With others than with him: let them alone. 

The marshal and the archbishop are strong: 

Had my sweet Harry had but half their numbers, 

To-day might I, hanging on Hotspur's neck, 44 

Have talk'd of Monmouth's grave. 

North. Beshrew your heart, 

Fair daughter ! you do draw my spirits from me 
With new lamenting ancient oversights. 
But I must go and meet with danger there, 48 

Or it will seek me in another place, 
And find me worse provided. 

Lady N. O ! fly to Scotland, 

Till that the nobles and the armed commons 
Have of their puissance made a little taste. 52 

Lady P. If they get ground and vantage of the 
king, 
Then join you with them, like a rib of steel, 
To make strength stronger; but, for all our loves, 
First let them try themselves. So did your son ; 56 
He was so suffer'd: so came I a widow; 
And never shall have length of life enough 
To rain upon remembrance with mine eyes, 
That it may grow and sprout as high as heaven, 60 
For recordation to my noble husband. 

38 defensible: able to furnish defense 40 nice: scrupulous 

61 For recordation to : in memory of 



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North. Come, come, go in with me. 'Tis with my 
mind 
As with the tide swell'd up unto his height, 
That makes a still-stand, running neither way: 64 
Fain would I go to meet the archbishop, 
But many thousand reasons hold me back. 

1 will resolve for Scotland: there am I, 

Till time and vantage crave my company. 68 

Exeunt. 

Scene Four 

[London. A Room in the Boar's Head Tavern, in 
Eastcheap] 

Enter two Drawers [Francis and another]. 

First Draw. What the devil hast thou brought 
there? apple-johns? thou knowest Sir John can- 
not endure an apple-john. 

Sec. Draw. Mass, thou sayst true. The prince 4 
once set a dish of apple-johns before him, and 
told him there were five more Sir Johns; and, 
putting off his hat, said, 'I will now take my 
leave of these six dry, round, old withered 8 
knights.' It angered him to the heart; but he 
hath forgot that. 

First Draw. Why then, cover, and set them 
down: and see if thou canst find out Sneaks 12 
noise; Mistress Tearsheet would fain hear some 
music. Dispatch: the room where they supped 
is too hot; they'll come in straight. 

Sec. Draw. Sirrah, here will be the prince 16 
and Master Poins anon; and they will put on 

2 apple-johns: apples that keep well but become very much shriveled 
11 cover: set the table 13 noise: band of musicians 



King Henry the Fourth, II. iv 41 

two of our jerkins and aprons; and Sir John 
must not know of it: Bardolph hath brought 
word. 20 

First Draw. By the mass, here will be old 
utis : it will be an excellent stratagem. 

Sec. Draw. I'll see if I can find out Sneak. 

Exit. 

Enter Hostess and Doll. 

Host. T faith, sweetheart, methinks now you 24 
are in an excellent good temperality: your pul- 
sidge beats as extraordinarily as heart would 
desire; and your colour, I warrant you, is as 
red as any rose ; in good truth, la ! But, i' faith, 28 
you have drunk too much canaries, and that's 
a marvellous searching wine, and it perfumes 
the blood ere one can say, What's this? How 
do you now? 32 

Dol. Better than I was: hem! 

Host. Why, that's well said; a good heart's 
worth gold. Lo! here comes Sir John. 

Enter Falstaff [singing']. 

Fal. 'When Arthur first in court' — Empty 36 
the Jordan. — [Exit Drawer.] — 'And was a 
worthy king.' How now, Mistress Doll! 

Host. Sick of a calm: yea, good faith. 

Fal. So is all her sect ; an they be once in a 40 
calm they are sick. 

Dol. A pox damn you, you muddy rascal, is 
that all the comfort you give me? 

Fal. You make fat ratals, Mistress Doll. 44 

21, 22 old utis: rare sport 36 Cf. n. 

37 Jordan: chamber-pot 39 calm: mistake for 'qualm 

40 sect: sex 



42 The Second Part of 

Dol. I make them! gluttony and diseases 
make them; I make them not. 

Fal. If the cook help to make the glut- 
tony, you help to make the diseases, Doll: we 48 
catch of you, Doll, we catch of you; grant that, 
my poor virtue, grant that. 

Dol. Yea, joy, our chains and our jewels. 

Fal. 'Your brooches, pearls, and owches' : — 52 
for to serve bravely is to come halting off, you 
know: to come off the breach with his pike bent 
bravely, and to surgery bravely ; to venture upon 
the charged chambers bravely, — 56 

Dol. Hang yourself, you muddy conger, hang 
yourself ! 

Host. By my troth, this is the old fashion; 
you two never meet but you fall to some discord: 60 
you are both, i' good truth, as rheumatic as two 
dry toasts; you cannot one bear with another's 
confirmities. What the good-year ! one must 
bear, and that must be you : you are the weaker 64 
vessel, as they say, the emptier vessel. 

Dol. Can a weak empty vessel bear such a 
huge full hogshead? there's a whole merchant's 
venture of Bordeaux stuff in him : you have not 68 
seen a hulk better stuffed in the hold. Come, 
I'll be friends with thee, Jack: thou art going 
to the wars; and whether I shall ever see thee 
again or no, there is nobody cares. 72 

Ente?- Drawer [Francis], 
Fran. Sir, Ancient Pistol's below, and would 
speak with you. 

52 Cf.n. owches: jewels 56 chambers: small can non 

57 conger: eel 61 rheumatic: error for 'splenetic' (?) 

63 good-year: corruption of French 'goujere,' 'the pox' 
73 Ancient: ensign or second lieutenant, Peto being Captain Fal- 
staff's first lieutenant 



King Henry the Fourth, II. iv 43 

Dol. Hang him, swaggering rascal! let him 
not come hither : it is the f oul-mouthedest rogue 76 
in England. 

Host. If he swagger, let him not come here: 
no, by my faith; I must live among my neigh- 
bours; I'll no swaggerers: I am in good name 80 
and fame with the very best. Shut the door; 
there comes no swaggerers here: I have not 
lived all this while to have swaggering now: 
shut the door, I pray you. 84 

Fal. Dost thou hear, hostess? 

Host. Pray ye, pacify yourself, Sir John: 
there comes no swaggerers here. 

Fal. Dost thou hear? it is mine ancient. 88 

Host. Tilly-fally, Sir John, ne'er tell me: 
your ancient swaggerer comes not in my doors. 
I was before Master Tisick, the debuty, t'other 
day ; and, as he said to me, — 'twas no longer ago 92 
than Wedesday last, — 'I' good faith, neighbor 
Quickly,' says he ; — Master Dumbe, our minister, 
was by then; — 'Neighbour Quickly,' says he, 're- 
ceive those that are civil, for,' said he, 'you are in 96 
an ill name'; now, a' said so, I can tell where- 
upon; 'for,' says he, 'you are an honest woman, 
and well thought on; therefore take heed what 
guests you receive : receive,' says he, 'no swag- 100 
gering companions.' There comes none here: — 
you would bless you to hear what he said. No, 
I'll no swaggerers. 

Fal. He's no swaggerer, hostess ; a tame 104 
cheater, i' faith; you may stroke him as gently 
as a puppy greyhound: he'll not swagger with 

80 swaggerers: bullies 91 debuty; cf. n. 

104, 105 tame cheater; cf. n. 



44 The Second Part of 

a Barbary hen if her feathers turn back in any 
show of resistance. Call him up, drawer. 108 

[Exit Francis.'] 

Host. Cheater, call you him? I will bar no 
honest man my house, nor no cheater; but I do 
not love swaggering, by my troth; I am the 
worse, when one says swagger. Feel, masters, 112 
how I shake; look you, I warrant you. 

Dol. So you do, hostess. 

Host. Do I? yea, in very truth, do I, an 
'twere an aspen leaf: I cannot abide swaggerers. 116 

Enter Ancient Pistol, and Bardolph and his boy. 

Pist. God save you, Sir John! 

Fal. Welcome, Ancient Pistol. Here, Pistol, 
I charge you with a cup of sack: do you dis- 
charge upon mine hostess. 120 

Pist. I will discharge upon her, Sir John, 
with two bullets. 

Fal. She is pistol-proof, sir; you shall hardly 
offend her. 124 

Host. Come, I'll drink no proofs nor no 
bullets: I'll drink no more than will do me 
good, for no man's pleasure, I. 

Pist. Then to you, Mistress Dorothy; I will 128 
charge you. 

Dol. Charge me! I scorn you, scurvy com- 
panion. What! you poor, base, rascally, cheat- 
ing, lack-linen mate ! Away, you mouldy rogue, 132 
away ! I am meat for your master. 

Pist. I know you, Mistress Dorothy. 

Dol. Away, you cut-purse rascal! you filthy 

107 Barbary hen: a hen whose feathers naturally turn back 

130 companion: a term of contempt 132 mate: fellow, 'chap' 



King Henry the Fourth, II. iv 45 

bung, away ! By this wine, I'll thrust my knife 136 
in your mouldy chaps an you play the saucy 
cuttle with me. Away, you bottle-ale rascal ! 
you basket-hilt stale juggler, you! Since when, 
I pray you, sir? God's light! with two points 140 
on your shoulder ? much ! 

Pist. God let me not live but I will murder 
your ruff for this ! 

[Attacking her, and tearing her ruff.] 

Fal. No more, Pistol : I would not have you 144 
go off here. Discharge yourself of our company, 
Pistol. 

Host. No, good captain Pistol; not here, 
sweet captain. 148 

Dol. Captain ! thou abominable damned 
cheater, art thou not ashamed to be called 
captain? An captains were of my mind, they 
would truncheon you out for taking their names 152 
upon you before you have earned them. You 
a captain, you slave ! for what ? for tearing a 
poor whore's ruff in a bawdy-house? He a 
captain ! Hang him, rogue ! He lives upon 156 
mouldy stewed prunes and dried cakes. A 
captain! God's light, these villains will make 
the word captain as odious as the word 'occupy,' 
which was an excellent good word before it was 160 
ill sorted: therefore captains had need look to 't. 

Bard. Pray thee, go down, good ancient. 

Fal. Hark thee hither, Mistress Doll. 

Pist. Not I ; I tell thee what, Corporal Bar- 164 

136 bung: slang for 'sharper' 137 chaps: jaws 

138 cuttle: slang for 'cut purse' 

139 basket-hilt: referring to the basket-shaped steel hand-guard on 
the hilt of Pistol's sword 

juggler: trickster Since when, etc.: a cant exclamation of scorn 

140 two points: shoulder tags, mark of an army commission 
159 occupy; cf. n. 



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dolph; I could tear her. I'll be revenged of 
her. 

Page. Pray thee, go down. 

Pist. I'll see her damned first; to Pluto's 168 
damned lake, by this hand, to the infernal deep, 
with Erebus and tortures vile also. Hold hook 
and line, say I. Down, down, dogs ! down fai- 
tors. Have we not Hiren here? 172 

Host. Good Captain Peesel, be quiet; 'tis 
very late, i' faith. I beseek you now, aggravate 
your choler. 

Pist . These be good humours, indeed ! Shall pack- 
horses, 176 
And hollow pamper'd jades of Asia, 
Which cannot go but thirty mile a day, 
Compare with Caesars, and with Cannibals, 
And Trojan Greeks? nay, rather damn them with 180 
King Cerberus; and let the welkin roar. 
Shall we fall foul for toys? 

Host. By my troth, captain, these are very 
bitter words. 184 

Bard. Be gone, good ancient: this will grow 
to a brawl anon. 

Pist. Die men like dogs ! give crowns like 
pins ! Have we not Hiren here ? 188 

Host. O' my word, captain, there's none 
such here. What the good-year! do you think 
I would deny her? for God's sake! be quiet. 
Pist. Then feed, and be fat, my fair Calipolis. 192 
Come, give's some sack. 

Si fortune me tormente, sperato me contento. 
Fear we broadsides? no, let the fiend give fire: 

171 f aitors : impost ers 172 Hiren; cf. n. 

177, 178 Cf. n. 179 Cannibals: blunder fcr 'Hannibals' 

182 toys: trifles 192 Cf. n. 194 Cf. ». 



King Henry the Fourth, II. iv w 

Give me some sack ; and, sweetheart, lie thou there. 19C 

[Laying down his sword. ] 
Come we to full points here, and are et ceteras noth- 
ing? 

Fal. Pistol, I would be quiet. 

Pist. Sweet knight, I kiss thy neif. What! 
we have seen the seven stars. 200 

Dol. For God's sake, thrust him down stairs ! 
I cannot endure such a fustian rascal. 

Pist . 'Thrust him down stairs !' know we not 
Galloway nags? 204 

Fal. Quoit him down, Bardolph, like a shove- 
groat shilling: nay, an a' do nothing but speak 
nothing, a'^ shall be nothing here. 

Bard. Come, get you down stairs. 208 

Pist. What! shall we have incision? Shall we 

imbrue? [Snatching up his sword.'] 

Then death rock me asleep, abridge my doleful days ! 
Why then, let grievous, ghastly, gaping wounds 
Untwine the Sisters Three! Come, Atropos, I 

say ! 212 

Host. Here's goodly stuff toward! 

Fal. Give me my rapier, boy. 

Dol. I pray thee, Jack, I pray thee, do not 
draw. 216 

Fal. Get you down stairs. [Drawing.] 

Host. Here's a goodly tumult! I'll forswear 
keeping house, afore I'll be in these tirrits and 
frights. So; murder, I warrant now. Alas, alas ! 220 
put up your naked weapons; put up your naked 
weapons. [Exeunt Bardolph and Pistol."] 

197 full points: a full stop 199 neif: fist 

200 seven stars: the Pleiades 202 fustian: nonsensical 

204 Galloway nags: small and inferior breed of horses 

205 Quoit: pitch shove-groat; cf. n. 209 imbrue: draw blood 

212 Sisters Three: the Fates, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos 

213 toward: at hand 219 tirrits: blunder for terrors (?) 



48 The Second Part of 

Dol. I pray thee, Jack, be quiet; the rascal's 
gone. Ah ! you whoreson little valiant villain, 224 
you! 

Host. Are you not hurt i' the groin? me- 
thought a' made a shrewd thrust at your belly. 

[Enter Bardolph.] 

Fal. Have you turned him out o' doors? 228 

Bard. Yea, sir: the rascal's drunk. You 
have hurt him, sir, i' the shoulder. 

Fal. A rascal, to brave me! 

Dol. Ah, you sweet little rogue, you ! Alas, 232 
poor ape, how thou sweatest ! Come, let me wipe 
thy face; come on, you whoreson chops. Ah, 
rogue ! i' faith, I love thee. Thou art as valorous 
as Hector of Troy, worth five of Agamemnon, 236 
and ten times better than the Nine Worthies. 
Ah, villain! 

Fal. A rascally slave! I will toss the rogue in 
a blanket. 240 

Dol. Do, an thou darest for thy heart: an 
thou dost, I'll canvass thee between a pair of 
sheets. 

Enter Music. 

Page. The music is come, sir. 244 

Fal. Let them play. Play, sirs. Sit on my 

knee, Doll. A rascal bragging slave! the rogue 

fled from me like quicksilver. 

Dol. V faith, and thou followedst him like a 248 

church. Thou whoreson little tidy Bartholomew 

boar-pig, when wilt thou leave fighting o' days, 

234 chops: fat-face 

249, 250 Bartholomew boar-pig: roast pig, a favorite dish at Bartholo- 
mew Fair 



King Henry the Fourth, II. iv 49 

and foining o' nights, and begin to patch up 
thine old body for heaven? 252 

Enter [behind] the Prince and Poins, disguised 
[like Drawers]. 

Fal. Peace, good Doll ! do not speak like a 
death's head: do not bid me remember mine 
end. 

Dol. Sirrah, what humour's the prince of? 256 
Fal. A good shallow young fellow: a' would 
have made a good pantler, a' would have chipped 
bread well. 

Dol. They say, Poins has a good wit. 260 

Fal. He a good wit! hang him, baboon! his 
wit is as thick as Tewksbury mustard: there is 
no more conceit in him than is in a mallet. 

Dol. Why does the prince love him so, then ? 264 
Fal. Because their legs are both of a bigness, 
and a' plays at quoits well, and eats conger and 
fennel, and drinks off candles' ends for flap- 
dragons, and rides the wild mare with the boys, 268 
and jumps upon joint-stools, and swears with a 
good grace, and wears his boots very smooth, 
like unto the sign of the leg, and breeds no bate 
with telling of discreet stories ; and such other 272 
gambol faculties a' has, that show a weak mind 
and an able body, for the which the prince 
admits him: for the prince himself is such 
another ; the weight of a hair will turn the 276 
scales between their avoirdupois. 

258 pantler: servant in charge of the pantry 

263 conceit: imagination 267 drinks . . . flapdragons; cf. n. 

268 rides . . . mare : plays see-saw 

269 joint-stools: stools made by a joiner, as distinguished from those 
of rough make 

271 sign of the leg: a shoemaker's sign 

breeds no bate: causes no strife 273 gambol: sportive 



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Prince. Would not this nave of a wheel have 
his ears cut off? 

Poins. Let's beat him before his whore. 280 

Prince. Look, whether the withered elder 
hath not his poll clawed like a parrot. 

Poins. Is it not strange that desire should so 
many years outlive performance ? 284 

Fal. Kiss me, Doll. 

Prince, Saturn and Venus this year in con- 
junction! what says the almanack to that? 

Poins. And, look, whether the fiery Trigon, 288 
his man, be not lisping to his master's old tables, 
his note-book, his counsel-keeper. 

Fal. Thou dost give me flattering busses. 

Dol. By my troth, I kiss thee with a most 292 
constant heart. 

Fal. I am old, I am old. 

Dol. I love thee better than I love e'er a 
scurvy young boy of them all. 296 

Fal. What stuff wilt have a kirtle of? I 
shall receive money o' Thursday; shalt have 
a cap to-morrow. A merry song! come: it grows 
late ; we'll to bed. Thou'lt forget me when I 300 
am gone. 

Dol. By my troth, thou'lt set me a-weeping 
an thou sayst so: prove that ever I dress myself 
handsome till thy return. Well, hearken at the 304 
end. 

Fal. Some sack, Francis ! 

Prince. ) [Coming forward.] Anon, anon, 

Poins. ) sir. 308 

278 nave of a wheel : Falstaff's knavery and rotundity are both in- 
cluded in this phrase 282 poll: head 286 Cf.n. 

288 fiery Trigon: Bardolph; cf. n. 

289 lisping: making love 

old tables: old account book, i.e., the hostess 
297 kirtle: waist or skirt or both 304 hearken at: watch 



King Henry the Fourth, II. iv 61 

Fal. Ha! a bastard son of the king's? And 
art not thou Poins his brother? 

Prince. Why, thou globe of sinful continents, 
what a life dost thou lead ! 312 

Fal. A better than thou: I am a gentleman; 
thou art a drawer. 

Prince. Very true, sir; and I come to draw 
you out by the ears. 316 

Host. O! the Lord preserve thy good Grace; 
by my troth, welcome to London. Now, the 
Lord bless that sweet face of thine! O Jesu! 
are you come from Wales? 320 

Fal. Thou whoreson mad compound of 
majesty, by this light flesh and corrupt blood 
[pointing to Doll], thou art welcome. 

Dol. How, you fat fool ! I scorn you. 324 

Poins. My lord, he will drive you out of your 
revenge and turn all to a merriment, if you take 
not the heat. 

Prince. You whoreson candle-mine, you, how 328 
vilely did you speak of me even now before this 
honest, virtuous, civil gentlewoman! 

Host. God's blessing of your good heart! and 
so she is, by my troth. 332 

Fal. Didst thou hear me? 

Prince. Yea; and you knew me, as you did 
when you ran away by Gadshill: you knew I 
was at your back, and spoke it on purpose to try 336 
my patience. 

Fal. No, no, no; not so; I did not think thou 
wast within hearing. 

Prince. I shall drive you then to confess the 340 

326,327 take . . . the heat: strike while the iron's hot 
328 candle-mine: mine of tallow 



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wilful abuse; and then I know how to handle 
you. 

Fal. No abuse, Hal, o' mine honour; no 
abuse. 344 

Prince. Not to dispraise me, and call me 
pantler and bread-chipper and I know not what? 

Fal. No abuse, Hal. 

Poins. No abuse ! 348 

Fal. No abuse, Ned, in the world; honest 
Ned, none. I dispraised him before the wicked, 
that the wicked might not fall in love with him; 
in which doing I have done the part of a careful 352 
friend and a true subject, and thy father is to 
give me thanks for it. No abuse, Hal; none, 
Ned, none: no, faith, boys, none. 

Prince. See now, whether pure fear and 356 
entire cowardice doth not make thee wrong this 
virtuous gentlewoman to close with us? Is she 
of the wicked? Is thine hostess here of the 
wicked ? Or is thy boy of the wicked ? Or 360 
honest Bardolph, whose zeal burns in his nose, of 
the wicked? 

Poins. Answer, thou dead elm, answer. 

Fal. The fiend hath pricked down Bardolph 364 
irrecoverable; and his face is Lucifer's privy- 
kitchen, where he doth nothing but roast malt- 
worms. For the boy, there is a good angel about 
him; but the devil outbids him too. 368 

Prince. For the women? 

Fal. For one of them, she is in hell already, 
and burns poor souls. For the other, I owe her 
money ; and whether she be damned for that, I 372 
know not. 

358 close: make peace 363 dead elm; cf. n. 

364 pricked down : marked down 366,367 malt-worms: ale-topers 



King Henry the Fourth, II. iv 53 

Host. No, I warrant you. 

Fal. No, I think thou art not; I think thou 
art quit for that. Marry, there is another in- 376 
dictment upon thee, for suffering flesh to be 
eaten in thy house, contrary to the law; for the 
which I think thou wilt howl. 

Host. All victuallers do so: what's a joint of 380 
mutton or two in a whole Lent? 

Prince. You, gentlewoman, — 

Dol. What says your Grace? 

Fal. His Grace says that which his flesh 384 
rebels against. 

Veto knocks at door. 

Host. Who knocks so loud at door? Look 
to the door there, Francis. 

Enter Peto. 

Prince. Peto, how now ! what news ? 388 

Peto. The king your father is at Westminster; 
And there are twenty weak and wearied posts 
Come from the north: and as I came along, 
I met and overtook a dozen captains, 392 

Bare-headed, sweating, knocking at the taverns, 
And asking every one for Sir John Falstaff. 

Prince. By heaven, Poins, I feel me much to 
blame, 
So idly to profane the precious time, 396 

When tempest of commotion, like the south, 
Borne with black vapour, doth begin to melt 
And drop upon our bare unarmed heads. 
Give me my sword and cloak. Falstaff, good 
night. 400 

Exeunt Prince and Poins [Bardolph and Peto]. 

376 quit: absolved 390 posts: couriers 397 south: south wind 



54 The Second Part of 

Fal. Now comes in the sweetest morsel of 
the night, and we must hence and leave it un- 
picked. [Knocking within.'] More knocking at 
the door! 404 

[Enter Bardolph.] 

How now ! what's the matter ? 

Bard. You must away to court, sir, presently; 
A dozen captains stay at door for you. 

Fal. [To the Page]. Pay the musicians, sirrah. 408 
Farewell, hostess, farewell, Doll. You see, my 
good wenches, how men of merit are sought 
after: the undeserver may sleep when the man 
of action is called on. Farewell, good wenches. 412 
If I be not sent away post, I will see you again 
ere I go. 

Dol. I cannot speak; if my heart be not 
ready to burst, — well, sweet Jack, have a care 416 
of thyself. 

Fal. Farewell, farewell. 

Exit [Falstaff, with Bardolph], 

Host. Well, fare thee well: I have known 
thee these twenty-nine years, come peascod- 420 
time; but an honester, and truer-hearted man, 
— well, fare thee well. 

Bard. [Within.] Mistress Tearsheet! 

Host. What's the matter? 424 

Bard. [Within.] Bid Mistress Tearsheet come 
to my master. 

Host. O ! run, Doll, run ; run, good Doll. 
Come ! She comes blubbered. 428 

Yea, will you come, Doll? Exeunt. 

413 post: in haste 428 S. d. blubbered: in tears 



King Henry the Fourth, III. i 55 

ACT THIRD 

Scene One 

[Westminster. The Palace] 

Enter the King in his night-gown, with a Page. 

King. Go, call the Earls of Surrey and of War- 
wick ; 
But, ere they come, bid them o'er-read these letters, 
And well consider of them. Make good speed. 

[Exit Page.] 
How many thousand of my poorest subjects 4 

Are at this hour asleep ! O sleep ! O gentle sleep ! 
Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, 
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down 
And steep my senses in f orgetf ulness ? 8 

Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, 
Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, 
And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, 
Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, 12 
Under the canopies of costly state, 
And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody? 
O thou dull god ! why liest thou with the vile 
In loathsome beds, and leav'st the kingly couch 16 
A watch-case or a common 'larum bell? 
Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast 
Seel up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains 
In cradle of the rude imperious surge, 20 

And in the visitation of the winds, 
Who take the ruffian billows by the top, 
Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them 
With deaf'ning clamour in the slippery clouds, 24 

S. d. night-gown: dressing gown 

17 watch-case: sentry-box 19 Seel: sew together (a hawking term) 



56 The Second Part of 

That with the hurly death itself awakes? 

Canst thou, O partial sleep! give thy repose 

To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, 

And in the calmest and most stillest night, 28 

With all appliances and means to boot, 

Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down! 

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. 

Enter Warwick and Surrey. 

War. Many good morrows to your majesty! 32 

King. Is it good morrow, lords? 

War. 'Tis one o'clock, and past. 

King. Why then, good morrow to you all, my lords. 
Have you read o'er the letters that I sent you? 36 

War. We have, my liege. 

King. Then you perceive the body of our kingdom, 
How foul it is; what rank diseases grow, 
And with what danger, near the heart of it. 40 

War. It is but as a body, yet distemper'd, 
Which to his former strength may be restor'd 
With good advice and little medicine: 
My Lord Northumberland will soon be cool'd. 44 

King. O God! that one might read the book of 
fate, 
And see the revolution of the times 
Make mountains level, and the continent, — 
Weary of solid firmness, — melt itself 48 

Into the sea ! and, other times, to see 
The beachy girdle of the ocean 
Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock, 
And changes fill the cup of alteration 52 

With divers liquors ! O ! if this were seen, 
The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, 
What perils past, what crosses to ensue, 

25 hurly: tumult 



King Henry the Fourth, III. i 57 

Would shut the book, and sit him down and die. 56 
'Tis not ten years gone 

Since Richard and Northumberland, great friends, 
Did feast together, and in two years after 
Were they at wars: it is but eight years since 60 

This Percy was the man nearest my soul, 
Who like a brother toil'd in my affairs 
And laid his love and life under my foot; 
Yea, for my sake, even to the eyes of Richard 64 

Gave him defiance. But which of you was by, — 
[To Warwick.] You, cousin Nevil, as I may remem- 
ber, — 
When Richard, with his eye brimful of tears, 
Then check'd and rated by Northumberland, 68 

Did speak these words, now prov'd a prophecy? 
'Northumberland, thou ladder, by the which 
My cousin Bolingbroke ascends my throne'; 
Though then, God knows, I had no such intent, 72 
But that necessity so bow'd the state 
That I and greatness were compelled to kiss : 
'The time shall come,' thus did he follow it, 
'The time will come, that foul sin, gathering head, 76 
Shall break into corruption' : — so went on, 
Foretelling this same time's condition 
And the division of our amity. 

War. There is a history in all men's lives, 80 

Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd; 
The which observ'd, a man may prophesy, 
With a near aim, of the main chance of things 
As yet not come to life, which in their seeds 84 

And weak beginnings lie intreasured. 
Such things become the hatch and brood of time; 
And by the necessary form of this 

68 check'd: rebuked 81 Figuring: symbolizing 

87 necessary form: logical necessity 



58 The Second Part of 

King Richard might create a perfect guess 88 

That great Northumberland, then false to him, 
Would of that seed grow to a greater falseness. 
Which should not find a ground to root upon, 
Unless on you. 

King. Are these things then necessities? 92 

Then let us meet them like necessities; 
And that same word even now cries out on us. 
They say the bishop and Northumberland 
Are fifty thousand strong. 

War. It cannot be, my lord ! 96 

Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, 
The numbers of the fear'd. Please it your Grace 
To go to bed: upon my soul, my lord, 
The powers that you already have sent forth 100 
Shall bring this prize in very easily. 
To comfort you the more, I have receiv'd 
A certain instance that Glendower is dead. 
Your majesty hath been this fortnight ill, 104 

And these unseason'd hours perforce must add 
Unto your sickness. 

King. I will take your counsel: 

And were these inward wars once out of hand, 
We would, dear lords, unto the Holy Land. 108 

Exeunt. 

Scene Two 
[Before Justice Shallow's House in Gloucestershire'] 

Enter Shallow and Silence, with Mouldy, Shadow, 
Wart, Feeble, Bullcalf [and Servants]. 

Shal. Come on, come on, come on, sir; give 
me your hand, sir, give me your hand, sir: an 

103 instance : proof 105 unseason'd: unseasonable 



King Henry the Fourth, III. ii 59 

early stirrer, by the rood! And how doth my 
good cousin Silence? 4 

Sil. Good morrow, good cousin Shallow. 

Shal. And how doth my cousin, your bed- 
fellow? and your fairest daughter and mine, my 
god-daughter Ellen? 8 

Sil. Alas ! a black ousel, cousin Shallow ! 

Shal. By yea and nay, sir, I dare say my 
cousin William is become a good scholar. He is 
at Oxford still, is he not? 12 

Sil. Indeed, sir, to my cost. 

Shal. A' must, then, to the inns o' court 
shortly. I was once of Clement's Inn; where I 
think they will talk of mad Shallow yet. 16 

Sil. You were called lusty Shallow' then, 
cousin. 

Shal. By the mass, I was called anything; 
and I would have done anything indeed too, 20 
and roundly too. There was I, and Little John 
Doit of Staffordshire, and black George Barnes, 
and Francis Pickbone, and Will Squele a Cots- 
wold man ; you had not four such swinge-buck- 24 
lers in all the inns o' court again : and, I may say 
to you, we knew where the bona-robas were, 
and had the best of them all at commandment. 
Then was Jack Falstaff, now Sir John, a boy, and 28 
page to Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk. 

Sil. This Sir John, cousin, that comes hither 
anon about soldiers? 

Shal. The same Sir John, the very same. I 32 
see him break Skogan's head at the court gate, 
when a' was a crack not thus high: and the very 

3 rood: cross 9 ousel: blackbird 

14 inns o' court: colleges of law 21 roundly: thoroughly 

24 swinge-bucklers : roisterer s 26 bona-robas: showy harlots 

28,29 Cf.n. 33 Skogan; cf. n. 34 crack: lively youngster 



60 The Second Part of 

same day did I fight with one Sampson Stock- 
fish, a fruiterer, behind Gray's Inn. Jesu ! Jesu ! 36 
the mad days that I have spent; and to see how 
many of my old acquaintance are dead! 

Sil. We shall all follow, cousin. 

Shal. Certain, 'tis certain ; very sure, very 40 
sure: death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to 
all; all shall die. How a good yoke of bullocks 
at Stamford fair? 

Sil. By my troth, I was not there. 44 

Shal. Death is certain. Is old Double of your 
town living yet? 

Sil. Dead, sir. 

Shal. Jesu! Jesu! dead! a' drew a good 48 
bow; and dead! a' shot a fine shoot: John a 
Gaunt loved him well, and betted much money 
on his head. Dead ! a' would have clapped i' the 
clout at twelve score ; and carried you a fore- 52 
hand shaft a fourteen and fourteen and a half, 
that it would have done a man's heart good to 
see. How a score of ewes now? 

Sil. Thereafter as they be: a score of good 56 
ewes may be worth ten pounds. 

Shal. And is old Double dead? 

Sil. Here come two of Sir John Falstaff's 
men, as I think. 60 

Enter Bardolph, and his Boy. 

Shal. Good morrow, honest gentlemen. 
Bard. I beseech you, which is Justice Shallow ? 
Shal. I am Robert Shallow, sir; a poor 
esquire of this county, and one of the king's 64 

42 How: what price 

51 clapped i' the clout: hit the white mark in the target 

52 at twelve score: at twelve score yards 

52, 53 forehand shaft: arrow made for shooting straight forward 

53 a fourteen, etc.: fourteen score yards 



King Henry the Fourth, III. it 61 

justices of the peace: what is your good pleasure 
with me? 

Bard. My captain, sir, commends him to you; 
my captain, Sir John Falstaff: a tall gentleman, 68 
by heaven, and a most gallant leader. 

Shal. He greets me well, sir. I knew him a 
good backsword man. How doth the good 
knight ? may I ask how my lady his wife doth ? 72 

Bard. Sir, pardon; a soldier is better accom- 
modated than with a wife. 

Shal. It is well said, in faith, sir; and it is 
well said indeed too. 'Better accommodated !' 76 
it is good; yea indeed, is it: good phrases are 
surely and ever were, very commendable. Ac- 
commodated! it comes of accommodo: very 
good; a good phrase. 80 

Bard. Pardon me, sir; I have heard the 
word. 'Phrase/ call you it? By this good day, 
I know not the phrase; but I will maintain the 
word with my sword to be a soldier-like word, 84 
and a word of exceeding good command, by 
heaven. Accommodated; that is, when a man 
is, as they say, accommodated; or, when a man 
is, being, whereby, a' may be thought to be 88 
accommodated, which is an excellent thing. 

Enter Falstaff. 

Shal. It is very just. Look, here comes good 
Sir John. Give me your good hand, give me 
your worship's good hand. By my troth, you 92 
look well and bear your years very well: wel- 
come, good Sir John. 

68 tall: doughty 71 backsword man: fighter at single-sticks 

73 accommodated; cf. n. 



62 The Second Part of 

Fal. I am glad to see you well, good Master 
Robert Shallow. Master Surecard, as I think. 96 

Shal. No, Sir John; it is my cousin, Silence, 
in commission with me. 

Fal. Good Master Silence, it well befits you 
should be of the peace. 100 

Sil. Your good worship is welcome. 

Fal. Fie! this is hot weather, gentlemen. 
Have you provided me here half a dozen 
sufficient men? 104 

Shal. Marry, have we, sir. Will you sit? 

Fal. Let me see them, I beseech you. 

Shal. Where's the roll? where's the roll? 
where's the roll ? Let me see, let me see, 108 
So, so, so, so, so, so, so: yea, marry, sir: Ralph 
Mouldy ! let them appear as I call ; let them do so, 
let them do so. Let me see; where is Mouldy? 

Moul. Here, an 't please you. 112 

Shal. What think you, Sir John? a good- 
limbed fellow; young, strong, and of good 
friends. 

Fal. Is thy name Mouldy? 116 

Moul. Yea, an 't please you. 

Fal. 'Tis the more time thou wert used. 

Shal. Ha, ha, ha! most excellent, i' faith! 
things that are mouldy lack use : very singular 120 
good. In faith, well said, Sir John; very well 
said. 

Fal. Prick him. 

Moul. I was pricked well enough before, an 124 
you could have let me alone: my old dame will 
be undone now for one to do her husbandry and 

96 Surecard: the name signifies 'boon companion' 

98 commission: office 104 sufficient: /i£ 

123 Prick: mark down 



King Henry the Fourth, III. ii 



63 



her drudgery: you need not to have pricked me; 
there are other men fitter to go out than I. 128 

Fal. Go to: peace, Mouldy! you shall go. 
Mouldy, it is time you were spent. 
Moul. Spent! 

Shal. Peace, fellow, peace ! stand aside : know 132 
you where you are? For the other, Sir John: 
let me see. Simon Shadow! 

Fal. Yea, marry, let me have him to sit 
under: he's like to be a cold soldier. 136 

Shal. Where's Shadow? 
Shad. Here, sir. 

Fal. Shadow, whose son art thou? 
Shad. My mother's son, sir. 140 

Fal. Thy mother's son! like enough, and thy 
father's shadow: so the son of the female is the 
shadow of the male: it is often so, indeed; but 
not of the father's substance. 144 

Shal Do you like him, Sir John? 
Fal. Shadow will serve for summer; prick 
him, for we have a number of shadows to fill up 
the muster-book. 14 8 

Shal. Thomas Wart? 
Fal. Where's he? 
Wart. Here, sir. 

Fal. Is thy name Wart? 152 

Wart. Yea, sir. 

Fal. Thou art a very ragged wart. 
Shal. Shall I prick him, Sir John? 
Fal. It were superfluous ; for his apparel is 156 
built upon his back, and the whole frame stands 
upon pins: prick him no more. 

147 shadows: names, for which we receive pay, though we have not 
the men 



64 The Second Part of 

Shal. Ha, ha, ha! you can do it, sir; you can 
do it : I commend you well. Francis Feeble ! 160 

Fee. Here, sir. 

Fal. What trade art thou, Feeble? 

Fee. A woman's tailor, sir. 

Shal. Shall I prick him, sir ? 164 

Fal. You may; but if he had been a man's 
tailor he'd have pricked you. Wilt thou make 
as many holes in an enemy's battle as thou hast 
done in a woman's petticoat? 168 

Fee. I will do my good will, sir: you can 
have no more. 

Fal. Well said, good woman's tailor! well 
said, courageous Feeble ! Thou wilt be as valiant 172 
as the wrathful dove or most magnanimous 
mouse. Prick the woman's tailor; well, Master 
Shallow; deep, Master Shallow. 

Fee. I would Wart might have gone, sir. 176 

Fal. I would thou wert a man's tailor, that 
thou mightst mend him, and make him fit to 
go. I cannot put him to a private soldier that is 
the leader of so many thousands : let that 180 
suffice, most forcible Feeble. 

Fee. It shall suffice, sir. 

Fal. I am bound to thee, reverend Feeble. 
Who is next? 184 

Shal. Peter Bullcalf o' the green! 

Fal. Yea, marry, let's see Bullcalf. 

Bull. Here, sir. 

Fal. 'Fore God, a likely fellow ! Come, prick 188 
me Bullcalf till he roar again. 

Bull. O Lord! good my lord captain, — 

Fal. What! dost thou roar before thou art 
pricked ? 192 

167 battle: army 180 thousands: i.<?., vermin 



King Henry the Fourth, III. it 65 

Bull. O Lord, sir! I am a diseased man. 

Fal. What disease hast thou? 

Bull. A whoreson cold, sir; a cough, sir, 
which I caught with ringing in the king's affairs 196 
upon his coronation day, sir. 

Fal. Come, thou shalt go to the wars in a 
gown; we will have away thy cold; and I will 
take such order that thy friends shall ring for 200 
thee. Is here all? 

Shal. Here is two more called than your 
number; you must have but four here, sir: and 
so, I pray you, go in with me to dinner. 204 

Fal. Come, I will go drink with you, but I 
cannot tarry dinner. I am glad to see you, by 
my troth, Master Shallow. 

Shal. O, Sir John, do you remember since we 208 
lay all night in the windmill in Saint George's 
field? 

Fal. No more of that, good Master Shallow, 
no more of that. 212 

Shal. Ha! 'twas a merry night. And is Jane 
Nightwork alive? 

Fal. She lives, Master Shallow. 

Shal. She never could away with me. 216 

Fal. Never, never; she would always say she 
could not abide Master Shallow. 

Shal. By the mass, I could anger her to the 
heart. She was then a bona-roba. Doth she 220 
hold her own well? 

Fal. Old, old, Master ShaUow. 

Shal. Nay, she must be old; she cannot choose 
but be old ; certain she's old ; and had Robin 224 

200 such order : such measures 216 away with : endure 



66 The Second Part of 

Nightwork by old Nightwork before I came to 
Clement's Inn. 

Sil. That's fifty-five years ago. 

Shal. Ha ! cousin Silence, that thou hadst 228 
seen that that this knight and I have seen. Ha ! 
Sir John, said I well? 

Fal. We have heard the chimes at midnight, 
Master Shallow. 232 

Shal. That we have, that we have, that we 
have; in faith, Sir John, we have. Our watch- 
word was, 'Hem boys!' Come, let's to dinner; 
come, let's to dinner. Jesus, the days that we 236 
have seen ! Come, come. 

Exeunt [Falstaff, Shallow, and Silence], 

Bull. Good Master Corporate Bardolph, stand 
my friend, and here's four Harry ten shillings in 
French crowns for you. In very truth, sir, I had 240 
as lief be hanged, sir, as go: and yet, for mine 
own part, sir, I do not care; but rather, because 
I am unwilling, and, for mine own part, have a 
desire to stay with my friends : else, sir, I did 244 
not care, for mine own part, so much. 

Bard. Go to; stand aside. 

Moul. And, good Master corporal captain, for 
my old dame's sake, stand my friend: she has 248 
nobody to do anything about her, when I am 
gone; and she is old, and cannot help herself. 
You shall have forty, sir. 

Bard. Go to; stand aside. 252 

Fee. By my troth, I care not; a man can die 
but once; we owe God a death. I'll ne'er bear 
a base mind : an 't be my destiny, so ; an 't be 
not, so. No man's too good to serve's prince ; 256 

238 Corporate: blunder for 'Corpora? 

239 Harry ten shillings; cf. n. 



King Henry the Fourth, III. ii 67 

and let it go which way it will, he that dies this 
year is quit for the next. 

Bard. Well said; thou'rt a good fellow. 

Fee. Faith, I'll bear no base mind. 260 

Enter Falstaff and the Justices. 

Fal. Come, sir, which men shall I have? 

Shal. Four, of which you please. 

Bard. [To Falstaff.] Sir, a word with you. 
I have three pound to free Mouldy and Bullcalf . 264 

Fal. [Aside to Bardolph.] Go to; well. 

Shal. Come, Sir John, which four will you 
have ? 

Fal. Do you choose for me. 268 

Shal. Marry, then, Mouldy, Bullcalf, Feeble, 
and Shadow. 

Fal. Mouldy, and Bullcalf: for you, Mouldy, 
stay at home till you are past service : and for 272 
your part, Bullcalf, grow till you come unto it: 
I will none of you. 

Shal. Sir John, Sir John, do not yourself 
wrong: they are your likeliest men, and I would 276 
have you served with the best. 

Fal. Will you tell me, Master Shallow, how 
to choose a man ? Care I for the limb, the thewes, 
the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man ! 280 
Give me the spirit, Master Shallow. Here's 
Wart; you see what a ragged appearance it is: 
a' shall charge you and discharge you with the 
motion of a pewterer's hammer, come off and on 284 
swifter than he that gibbets on the brewer's 
bucket. And this same half- faced fellow, Shadow, 
give me this man: he presents no mark to the 

264 three pound; cf. n. 280 assemblance: appearance 

285 gibbets; cf. n. 



68 The Second Part of 

enemy ; the f oeman may with as great aim level 288 
at the edge of a penknife. And, for a retreat; 
how swiftly will this Feeble the woman's tailor 
run off ! O ! give me the spare men, and spare 
me the great ones. Put me a caliver into Wart's 292 
hand, Bardolph. 

Bard. Hold, Wart, traverse; thus, thus, thus. 

Fal. Come, manage me your caliver. So: 
very well: go to: very good: exceeding good. 296 
O, give me always a little, lean, old, chopp'd, 
bald shot. Well said, i' faith, Wart; thou'rt a 
good scab: hold, there's a tester for thee. 

Shal. He is not his craft's master, he doth 300 
not do it right. I remember at Mile-end Green, 
when I lay at Clement's Inn, — I was then Sir 
Dagonet in Arthur's show, — there was a little 
quiver fellow, and a' would manage you his 304 
piece thus: and a' would about and about, and 
come you in, and come you in; 'rah, tah, tah,' 
would a' say; 'bounce,' would a' say; and away 
again would a' go, and again would a' come : I 308 
shall never see such a fellow. 

Fal. These fellows will do well, Master Shal- 
low. God keep you, Master Silence: I will not 
use many words with you. Fare you well, gentle- 312 
men both: I thank you: I must a dozen mile 
to-night. Bardolph, give the soldiers coats. 

Shal. Sir John, the Lord bless you ! God pros- 
per your affairs ! God send us peace ! At your 316 
return visit our house; let our old acquaintance 
be renewed: peradventure I will with ye to the 
court. 

292 caliver: light musket 294 traverse: march 

297 chopp'd : chapped 299 tester : sixpence 

301-303 Cf. n. 304 quiver: nimble 

306 come you in: make a home thrust 307 bounce: bang 



King Henry the Fourth, III. ii 69 

Fal. 'Fore God I would you would, Master 320 
Shallow. 

Shal. Go to; I have spoke at a word. God 
keep you. 

Fal. Fare you well, gentle gentlemen. 324 

Exit [Shallow, with Silence]. 
On, Bardolph ; lead the men away. 

[Exit Bardolph, with recruits.] 
As I return, I will fetch off these justices: 
I do see the bottom of Justice Shallow. Lord, 
Lord! how subject we old men are to this 328 
vice of lying. This same starved justice hath 
done nothing but prate to me of the wildness of 
his youth and the feats he hath done about 
Turnbull Street ; and every third word a lie, duer 332 
paid to the hearer than the Turk's tribute. I do 
remember him at Clement's Inn like a man made 
after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was 
naked he was for all the world like a forked 336* 
radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it 
with a knife: a' was so forlorn that his dimen- 
sions to any thick sight were invisible: a' was 
the very genius of famine ; yet lecherous as a 340 
monkey, and the whores called him mandrake: 
a' came ever in the rearward of the fashion and 
sung those tunes to the over-scutched huswives 
that he heard the carmen whistle, and sware 344 
they were his fancies or his good-nights. And 
now is this Vice's dagger become a squire, and 
talks as familiarly of John a Gaunt as if he had 

322 at a word: briefly but sincerely 

326 fetch off: get the better of, 'take in' 332 duer: more duly 

343 over-scutched huswives: cant term for 'harlots' 

344 carmen: teamsters 

345 fancies . . . good-nights: common names for little poems 

346 Vice's dagger; cf. n. 



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been sworn brother to him; and I'll be sworn a' 348 
never saw him but once in the Tilt-yard, and 
then he burst his head for crowding among the 
marshal's men. I saw it and told John a Gaunt 
he beat his own name ; for you might have thrust 352 
him and all his apparel into an eel-skin; the 
case of a treble hautboy was a mansion for him, 
a court; and now has he land and beefs. Well, 
I'll be acquainted with him, if I return; and 356 
it shall go hard but I'll make him a philoso- 
pher's two stones to me. If the young dace be a 
bait for the old pike, I see no reason in the law 
of nature but I may snap at him. Let time 360 
shape, and there an end. Exit. 

^maL* ACT FOURTH 

CUM* -***•• 2- . &JJ^v \xAiikfl, 









Scene One 

Enter the Archbishop, Mowbray, [Lord] Bardolph, 
Hastings, within the Forest of Gaultree. 

Arch. What is this forest call'd? 

Hast. 'Tis Gaultree Forest, an 't shall please your 
Grace. 

Arch. Here stand, my lords, and send discoverers 
forth, 
To know the numbers of our enemies. 4 

Hast. We have sent forth already. 

Arch. 'Tis well done. 

My friends and brethren in these great affairs, 
I must acquaint you that I have receiv'd 
New-dated letters from Northumberland; 8 

354 hautboy: slender reed instrument, oboe 
357 philosopher's two stones; cf. n. 



King Henry the fourth, IV. i 71 

Their cold intent, tenour and substance, thus: 
Here doth he wish his person, with such powers 
As might hold sortance with his quality; 
The which he could not levy; whereupon 12 

He is retir'd, to ripe his growing fortunes, 
To Scotland; and concludes in hearty prayers 
That your attempts may overlive the hazard 
And fearful meeting of their opposite. 16 

Mowb. Thus do the hopes we have in him touch 
ground 
And dash themselves to pieces. 

Enter a Messenger. 

Hast. Now, what news? 

Mess. West of this forest, scarcely off a mile, 
In goodly form comes on the enemy; 20 

And, by the ground they hide, I judge their number 
Upon or near the rate of thirty thousand. 

Mowb. The just proportion that we gave them out. 
Let us sway on and face them in the field. 24 

Enter Westmoreland. 

Arch. What well-appointed leader fronts us here? 

Mowb. I think it is my Lord of Westmoreland. 

West. Health and fair greeting from our general, 
The Prince, Lord John and Duke of Lancaster. 28 

Arch. Say on, my Lord of Westmoreland, in peace, 
What doth concern your coming. 

West. Then, my lord, 

Unto your Grace do I in chief address 
The substance of my speech. If that rebellion 32 
Came like itself, in base and abject routs, 

11 hold sortance: be in accord quality: rank 

20 form : formation 

23 just proportion: exact size gave them out: described them 

33 routs: gangs 



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Led on by bloody youth, guarded with rags, 
And countenanc'd by boys and beggary; 
I say, if damn'd commotion so appear'd, 36 

In his true, native, and most proper shape, 
You, reverend father, and these noble lords 
Had not been here, to dress the ugly form 
Of base and bloody insurrection 40 

With your fair honours. You, lord archbishop, 
Whose see is by a civil peace maintain'd, 
Whose beard the silver hand of peace hath touch'd, 
Whose learning and good letters peace hath tutor'd, 44 
Whose white investments figure innocence, 
The dove and very blessed spirit of peace, 
Wherefore do you so ill translate yourself 
Out of the speech of peace that bears such grace 48 
Into the harsh and boisterous tongue of war; 
Turning your books to greaves, your ink to blood, 
Your pens to lances, and your tongue divine 
To a loud trumpet and a point of war? 52 

Arch. Wherefore do I this ? so the question stands. 
Briefly to this end: we are all diseas'd; 
And, with our surfeiting and wanton hours 
Have brought ourselves into a burning fever, 56 

And we must bleed for it: of which disease 
Our late king, Richard, being infected, died. 
But, my most noble Lord of Westmoreland, 
I take not on me here as a physician, 60 

Nor do I as an enemy to peace 
Troop in the throngs of military men ; 
But rather show a while like fearful war, 
To diet rank minds sick of happiness 64 

And purge the obstructions which begin to stop 
Our very veins of life. Hear me more plainly: 

34 guarded: decked 52 point: trumpet signal 



King Henry the Fourth, IV. i 73 

I have in equal balance justly weigh'd 
What wrongs our arms may do, what wrongs we 
suffer, 68 

And find our griefs heavier than our offences. 
We see which way the stream of time doth run 
And are enforc'd from our most quiet sphere 
By the rough torrent of occasion; 72 

And have the summary of all our griefs, 
When time shall serve, to show in articles, 
Which long ere this we offer'd to the king, 
And might by no suit gain our audience. 76 

When we are wrong' d and would unfold our griefs, 
We are denied access unto his person 
Even by those men that most have done us wrong. 
The dangers of the days but newly gone, — 80 

Whose memory is written on the earth 
With yet appearing blood, — and the examples 
Of every minute's instance, present now, 
Have put us in these ill-beseeming arms ; 84 

Not to break peace, or any branch of it, 
But to establish here a peace indeed, 
Concurring both in name and quality. 

West. When ever yet was your appeal denied? 88 
Wherein have you been galled by the king? 
What peer hath been suborn'd to grate on you, 
That you should seal this lawless bloody book 
Of forg'd rebellion with a seal divine, 92 

And consecrate commotion's bitter edge? 

Arch. My brother general, the commonwealth, 
To brother born an household cruelty, 
I make my quarrel in particular. 96 

West. There is no need of any such redress; 
Or if there were, it not belongs to you. 

69 griefs: grievances 93 commotion's: in surrection's 

94-96 Cf. n. 



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Mowb. Why not to him in part, and to us all 
That feel the bruises of the days before, 100 

And suffer the condition of these times 
To lay a heavy and unequal hand 
Upon our honours? 

West. O ! my good Lord Mowbray, 

Construe the times to their necessities, 104 

And you shall say indeed, it is the time, 
And not the king, that doth you injuries. 
Yet, for your part, it not appears to me 
Either from the king or in the present time 108 

That you should have an inch of any ground 
To build a grief on: were you not restor'd 
To all the Duke of Norfolk's signories, 
Your noble and right well-remember'd father's ? 112 

Mowb. What thing, in honour, had my father lost, 
That need to be reviv'd and breath'd in me? 
The king that lov'd him as the state stood then, 
Was force perforce compell'd to banish him: 116 

And then that Harry Bolingbroke and he, 
Being mounted and both roused in their seats, 
Their neighing coursers daring of the spur, 
Their armed staves in charge, their beavers down, 129 
Their eyes of fire sparkling through sights of steel, 
And the loud trumpet blowing them together, 
Then, then when there was nothing could have stay'd 
My father from the breast of Bolingbroke, 124 

O ! when the king did throw his warder down, 
His own life hung upon the staff he threw; 
Then threw he down himself and all their lives 
That by indictment and by dint of sword 128 

104 to: according to 114 breath'd: given breath of life 

117 B. Cf.n. 

120 armed staves: lances in charge: in rest for the charge 
beavers: movable fronts of the helmets 

121 sights: eyeholes of the helmet 125 warder: staff of command 



King Henry the Fourth, IV. i 75 

Have since miscarried under Bolingbroke. 

West. You speak, Lord Mowbray, now you know 
not what. 
The Earl of Hereford was reputed then 
In England the most valiant gentleman: 132 

Who knows on whom Fortune would then have 

smil'd ? 
But if your father had been victor there, 
He ne'er had borne it out of Coventry; 
For all the country in a general voice 136 

Cried hate upon him ; and all their prayers and love 
Were set on Hereford, whom they doted on 
And bless'd and grac'd indeed, more than the king. 
But this is mere digression from my purpose. 140 
Here come I from our princely general 
To know your griefs ; to tell you from his Grace 
That he will give you audience; and wherein 
It shall appear that your demands are just, 144 

You shall enjoy them; everything set off 
That might so much as think you enemies. 

Mowb. But he hath forc'd us to compel this offer, 
And it proceeds from policy, not love. 148 

West. Mowbray, you overween to take it so. 
This offer comes from mercy, not from fear: 
For, lo! within a ken our army lies 
Upon mine honour, all too confident 152 

To give admittance to a thought of fear. 
Our battle is more full of names than yours, 
Our men more perfect in the use of arms, 
Our armour all as strong, our cause the best; 156 
Then reason will our hearts should be as good: 

129 miscarried: perished 

131 Earl of Hereford: King Henry, actually Duke of Hereford at 

the time of his banishment (cf. Richard II, I. in. 21) 
145 set off: ignored 149 overween: are arrogant 

151 within a ken: within seeing distance 
154 names: noble and soldierly names 



76 The Second Part of 

Say you not then our offer is compell'd. 

Mowb. Well, by my will we shall admit no parley. 

West. That argues but the shame of your 
offence : 160 

A rotten case abides no handling. 

Hast. Hath the Prince John a full commission, 
In very ample virtue of his father, 
To hear and absolutely to determine 164 

Of what conditions we shall stand upon? 

West. That is intended in the general's name. 
I muse you make so slight a question. 

Arch. Then take, my Lord of Westmoreland, this 
schedule, 168 

For this contains our general grievances: 
Each several article herein redress'd; 
All members of our cause, both here and hence, 
That are insinew'd to this action, 172 

Acquitted by a true substantial form; 
And present execution of our wills 
To us and to our purposes consign'd ; 
We come within our awf ill banks again 176 

And knit our powers to the arm of peace. 

West. This will I show the general. Please you, 
lords, 
In sight of both our battles we may meet; 
And either end in peace, which God so frame ! 180 
Or to the place of difference call the swords 
Which must decide it. 

Arch. My lord, we will do so. 

Exit Westmoreland. 

Mowb. There is a thing within my bosom tells me 
That no conditions of our peace can stand. 184 

163 In . . . virtue: by complete authority 166 intended : implied 

167 muse: wonder slight: trivial 

172 insinew'd: joined as by sinews 175 consign'd; cf. n. 

176 awful: respectful, reverential 



King Henry the Fourth, IV. i 77 

Hast. Fear you not that: if we can make our 
peace 
Upon such large terms, and so absolute 
As our conditions shall consist upon, 
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains. 188 

Mowb. Yea, but our valuation shall be such 
That every slight and false-derived cause, 
Yea, every idle, nice, and wanton reason 
Shall to the king taste of this action; 192 

That, were our royal faiths martyrs in love, 
We shall be winnow'd with so rough a wind 
That even our corn shall seem as light as chaff 
And good from bad find no partition. 196 

Arch. No, no, my lord. Note this; the king is 
weary 
Of dainty and such picking grievances : 
For he hath found to end one doubt by death 
Revives two greater in the heirs of life; 200 

And therefore will he wipe his tables clean, 
And keep no tell-tale to his memory 
That may repeat and history his loss 
To new remembrance; for full well he knows 204 
He cannot so precisely weed this land 
As his misdoubts present occasion: 
His foes are so enrooted with his friends 
That, plucking to unfix an enemy, 208 

He doth unfasten so and shake a friend. 
So that this land, like an offensive wife, 
That hath enrag'd him on to offer strokes, 
As he is striking, holds his infant up 212 

And hangs resolv'd correction in the arm 
That was uprear'd to execution. 

189 our valuation: the king's estimation of us 191 nice: trivial 

198 picking: fastidious 206 misdoubts: suspicions 

213 hangs: suspends 

resolv'd correction: chastisement which had been determined upon 



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Hast. Besides, the king hath wasted all his rods 
On late offenders, that he now doth lack 216 

The very instruments of chastisement; 
So that his power, like to a fangless lion, 
May offer, but not hold. 

Arch. 'Tis very true: 

And therefore be assur'd, my good lord marshal, 220 
If we do now make our atonement well, 
Our peace will, like a broken limb united, 
Grow stronger for the breaking. 

Mowb. Be it so. 

Here is return'd my Lord of Westmoreland. 224 

Enter Westmoreland. 

West. The prince is here at hand: pleaseth your 

lordship, 
To meet his Grace just distance 'tween our armies? 
Mowb. Your Grace of York, in God's name then, 

set forward. 
Arch. Before, and greet his Grace: my lord, we 

come. 228 

Scene Two 

[The Same'} 

Enter Prince John of Lancaster and his army. 

Lane. You are well encounter'd here, my cousin 
Mowbray : 
Good day to you, gentle lord archbishop; 
And so to you, Lord Hastings, and to all. 
My Lord of York, it better show'd with you. 4 

When that your flock, assembled by the bell, 

219 offer: attack 221 atonement: reconciliation 

228 Before: go before me Scene Two; cf. n. 



King Henry the Fourth, IV. ii 79 

Encircled you to hear with reverence 

Your exposition on the holy text 

Than now to see you here an iron man, 8 

Cheering a rout of rebels with your drum, 

Turning the word to sword and life to death. 

That man that sits within a monarch's heart 

And ripens in the sunshine of his favour, 12 

Would he abuse the countenance of the king, 

Alack! what mischiefs might he set abroach 

In shadow of such greatness. With you, lord bishop, 

It is even so. Who hath not heard it spoken 16 

How deep you were within the books of God ? 

To us the speaker in his parliament; 

To us the imagin'd voice of God himself; 

The very opener and intelligencer 20 

Between the grace, the sanctities of heaven, 

And our dull workings. O! who shall believe 

But you misuse the reverence of your place, 

Employ the countenance and grace of heaven, 24 

As a false favourite doth his prince's name, 

In deeds dishonourable? You have taken up, 

Under the counterfeited zeal of God, 

The subjects of his substitute, my father; 28 

And both against the peace of heaven and him 

Have here upswarm'd them. 

Arch. Good my Lord of Lancaster, 

I am not here against your father's peace ; 
But, as I told my Lord of Westmoreland, 32 

The time misorder'd doth, in common sense, 
Crowd us and crush us to this monstrous form, 
To hold our safety up. I sent your Grace 
The parcels and particulars of our grief, — 36 

20 intelligencer: interpreter 22 workings: actions 

26 taken up : levied 



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The which hath been with scorn shov'd from the 

court, — 
Whereon this Hydra son of war is born; 
Whose dangerous eyes may well be charm'd asleep 
With grant of our most just and right desires, 40 
And true obedience, of this madness cur'd, 
Stoop tamely to the foot of majesty. 

Mowb. If not, we ready are to try our fortunes 
To the last man. 

Hast. And though we here fall down, 44 

We have supplies to second our attempt: 
If they miscarry, theirs shall second them; 
And so success of mischief shall be born, 
And heir from heir shall hold this quarrel up 48 
Whiles England shall have generation. 

Lane. You are too shallow, Hastings, much too 
shallow, 
To sound the bottom of the after-times. 

West. Pleaseth your Grace, to answer them 
directly 52 

How far forth you do like their articles. 

Lane. I like them all, and do allow them well; 
And swear here, by the honour of my blood, 
My father's purposes have been mistook, 56 

And some about him have too lavishly 
Wrested his meaning and authority. 
My lord, these griefs shall be with speed redress'd; 
Upon my soul, they shall. If this may please you, 60 
Discharge your powers unto their several counties, 
As we will ours: and here between the armies 
Let's drink together friendly and embrace, 
That all their eyes may bear those tokens home 64 
Of our restored love and amity. 

47 success: succession 



King Henry the Fourth, IV. ii si 

Arch. I take your princely word for these re- 
dresses. 
Lane. I give it you, and will maintain my word: 
And thereupon I drink unto your Grace. 68 

Hast. [To an Officer.] Go, captain, and deliver to 
the army 
This news of peace: let them have pay, and part: 
I know it will well please them: hie thee, captain. 

Exit [Officer]. 
Arch. To you, my noble Lord of Westmoreland. 72 
West. I pledge your Grace: and, if you knew what 
pains 
I have bestow'd to breed this present peace, 
You would drink freely; but my love to you 
Shall show itself more openly hereafter. 76 

Arch. I do not doubt you. 
West. I am glad of it. 

Health to my lord and gentle cousin, Mowbray. 

Mowb. You wish me health in very happy season; 
For I am, on the sudden, something ill. 80 

Arch. Against ill chances men are ever merry, 
But heaviness foreruns the good event. 

West. Therefore be merry, coz; since sudden sor- 
row 
Serves to say thus, Some good thing comes to-mor- 
row. 84 
Arch. Believe me, I am passing light in spirit. 
Mowb. So much the worse if your own rule be 
true. Shout [within]. 
Lane. The word of peace is render'd: hark, how 

they shout! 
Mowb. This had been cheerful, after victory. 88 

70 part: depart 81 Against: when about to face 

82 heaviness: depression 85 passing: exceedingly 

87 render'd: reported 



82 The Second Part of 

Arch. A peace is of the nature of a conquest; 
For then both parties nobly are subdu'd, 
And neither party loser. 

Lane. Go, my lord, 

And let our army be discharged too. 92 

Exit [Westmoreland], 
And, good my lord, so please you, let our trains 
March by us, that we may peruse the men 
We should have cop'd withal. 

Arch. Go, good Lord Hastings, 96 

And, ere they be dismiss'd, let them march by. 

Exit [Hastings]. 

Lane. I trust, lords, we shall lie to-night together. 

Enter Westmoreland. 

Now, cousin, wherefore stands our army still? 

West. The leaders, having charge from you to 
stand, 100 

Will not go off until they hear you speak. 

Lane. They know their duties. 

Enter Hastings. 

Hast. My lord, our army is dispers'd already: 
Like youthful steers unyok'd, they take their 
courses 104 

East, west, north, south; or, like a school broke up, 
Each hurries toward his home and sporting-place. 

West. Good tidings, my Lord Hastings; for the 
which 
I do arrest thee, traitor, of high treason: 108 

And you, lord archbishop, and you, Lord Mowbray, 
Of capital treason I attach you both. 

Mowb. Is this proceeding just and honourable? 

West. Is your assembly so? 112 

94 peruse : inspect 



King Henry the Fourth, IV. Hi 83 

Arch. Will you thus break your faith? 

Lane. I pawn'd thee none. 

I promis'd you redress of these same grievances 
Whereof you did complain; which, by mine honour, 
I will perform with a most Christian care. 116 

But for you, rebels, look to taste the due 
Meet for rebellion and such acts as yours. 
Most shallowly did you these arms commence, 
Fondly brought here and foolishly sent hence. 120 
Strike up our drums ! pursue the scatter'd stray : 
God, and not we, hath safely fought to-day. 
Some guard these traitors to the block of death; 
Treason's true bed, and yielder up of breath. 124 

Exeunt. 

Scene Three 

[Another Part of the Forest] 

Alarums. Excursions. Enter F alstaff and Colevile. 

Fal. What's your name, sir? of what con- 
dition are you, and of what place, I pray? 

Cole. I am a knight, sir; and my name is 
Colevile of the dale. 4 

Fal. Well then, Colevile is your name, a 
knight is your degree, and your place the dale: 
Colevile shall be still your name, a traitor your 
degree, and the dungeon your place, a place 8 
deep enough; so shall you be still Colevile of 
the dale. 

Cole. Are not you Sir John Falstaff? 

Fal. As good a man as he, sir, whoe'er I am. 12 
Do ye yield, sir, or shall I sweat for you? If 

113 pawn'd : pledged 119 shallowly : thoughtlessly 

120 Fondly: foolishly 1 condition: rank 



84 The Second Part of 

I do sweat, they are the drops of thy lovers, 
and they weep for thy death: therefore rouse 
up fear and trembling, and do observance to 16 
my mercy. 

Cole. I think you are Sir John Falstaff, and 
in that thought yield me. 

Fal. I have a whole school of tongues in this 20 
belly of mine, and not a tongue of them all 
speaks any other word but my name. An I had 
but a belly of any indifferency, I were simply the 
most active fellow in Europe: my womb, my 24 
womb, my womb undoes me. Here comes our 
general. 

Enter Prince John, Westmoreland and the rest. 

Lane. The heat is past, follow no further now. 
Call in the powers, good cousin Westmoreland. 28 

[Exit Westmoreland.] 
Now, Falstaff, where have you been all this while? 
When everything is ended, then you come: 
These tardy tricks of yours will, on my life, 
One time or other break some gallows' back. 32 

Fal. I would be sorry, my lord, but it should 
be thus: I never knew yet but rebuke and check 
was the reward of valour. Do you think me a 
swallow, an arrow, or a bullet ? have I, in my 36 
poor and old motion, the expedition of thought? 
I have speeded hither with the very extremest 
inch of possibility; I have foundered nine score 
and odd posts ; and here, travel-tainted as I am, 40 
have, in my pure and immaculate valour, taken 
Sir John Colevile of the dale, a most furious 

16 observance : homage 23 indifferency : moderate size 

27 heat: race, pursuit 34 check: reproof 

37 expedition: speed 40 posts : post-horses 



King Henry the Fourth, IV. Hi 85 

knight and valorous enemy. But what of that? 
he saw me, and yielded; that I may justly say 44 
with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome, 'I came, 
saw, and overcame.' 

Lane. It was more of his courtesy than your 
deserving. 48 

Fal. I know not: here he is, and here I yield 
him; and I beseech your Grace, let it be booked 
with the rest of this day's deeds ; or, by the Lord, 
I will have it in a particular ballad else, with 52 
mine own picture on the top on 't, Colevile 
kissing my foot. To the which course if I be 
enforced, if you do not all show like gilt two- 
pences to me, and I in the clear sky of fame 56 
o'ershine you as much as the full moon doth 
the cinders of the element, which show like pins' 
heads to her, believe not the word of the noble. 
Therefore let me have right, and let desert 60 
mount. 

Lane. Thine's too heavy to mount. 

Fal. Let it shine then. 

Lane. Thine's too thick to shine. 64 

Fal. Let it do something, my good lord, that 
may do me good, and call it what you will. 

Lane. Is thy name Colevile? 

Cole. It is, my lord. 68 

Lane. A famous rebel art thou, Colevile. 

Fal. And a famous true subject took him. 
Cole. I am, my lord, but as my betters are 
That led me hither: had they been rul'd by me 72 
You should have won them dearer than you have. 

Fal. I know not how they sold themselves: 

58 cinders: glowing coals, stars element: sky 



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but thou, like a kind fellow, gavest thyself away 
gratis, and I thank thee for thee. 76 

Enter Westmoreland. 

Lane. Now, have you left pursuit? 
West. Retreat is made and execution stay'd. 
Lane. Send Colevile with his confederates 
To York, to present execution. 80 

Blunt, lead him hence, and see you guard him sure. 

Exit [Blunt] with Colevile. 
And now dispatch we toward the court, my lords: 
I hear, the king my father is sore sick: 
Our news shall go before us to his majesty, 84 

Which, cousin [addressing Westmoreland], you shall 

bear, to comfort him; 
And we with sober speed will follow you. 

Fat. My lord, I beseech you, give me leave to go, 
Through Gloucestershire, and when you come to 
court 88 

Stand my good lord, pray, in your good report. 

Lane. Fare you well, Falstaff: I, in my condition, 
Shall better speak of you than you deserve. 

[Exeunt all but Falstaff.] 
Fal. I would you had but the wit : 'twere 92 
better than your dukedom. Good faith, this 
same young sober-blooded boy doth not love 
me; nor a man cannot make him laugh; but 
that's no marvel, he drinks no wine. There's 96 
never none of these demure boys come to any 
proof; for thin drink doth so over-cool their 
blood, and making many fish-meals, that they 
fall into a kind of male green-sickness ; and then, 100 

80 present: immediate 82 dispatch we: let us hasten 

89 Stand my good lord: be my kind patron 

90 condition : official capacity 

97, 98 come to any proof: turn out well 



King Henry the Fourth, IV. Hi 87 

when they marry, they get wenches. They 
are generally fools and cowards, which some of 
us should be too but for inflammation. A good 
sherris-sack hath a two-fold operation in it. 104 
It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all 
the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which 
environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forget- 
ive, full of nimble, fiery and delectable shapes ; 108 
which, deliver'd o'er to the voice, the tongue, 
which is the birth, becomes excellent wit. The 
second property of your excellent sherris is, the 
warming of the blood ; which, before cold and 112 
settled, left the liver white and pale, which is 
the badge of pusillanimity and cowardice: but 
the sherris warms it and makes it course from 
the inwards to the parts extreme. It illumineth 116 
the face, which, as a beacon, gives warning to 
all the rest of this little kingdom, man, to arm; 
and then the vital commoners and inland petty 
spirits muster me all to their captain, the heart, 120 
who, great and puffed up with this retinue, doth 
any deed of courage; and this valour comes of 
sherris. So that skill in the weapon is nothing 
without sack, for that sets it a-work ; and learn- 124 
ing, a mere hoard of gold kept by a devil till 
sack commences it and sets it in act and use. 
Hereof comes it that Prince Harry is valiant; 
for the cold blood he did naturally inherit of 128 
his father, he hath, like lean, sterile, and bare 
land, manured, husbanded, and tilled, with ex- 
cellent endeavour of drinking good and good 
store of fertile sherris, that he is become very 132 
hot and valiant. If I had a thousand sons, the 

101 get wenches: beget girls 104 sherris-sack : sherry 

106 crudy: crude, raw 107 forgetive: inventive 125 Cf.n. 



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first human principle I would teach them should 
be, to forswear thin potations and to addict 
themselves to sack. 136 

Enter Bardolph. 

How now, Bardolph? 

Bard. The army is discharged all and gone. 
Fal. Let them go. I'll through Gloucester- 
shire ; and there will I visit Master Robert 140 
-'Xua'ulq & Shallow, esquire: I have him already tempering 
between my finger and my thumb, and shortly 
will I seal with him. Come away. Exeunt. 

Scene Four 
[Westminster. The Jerusalem Chamber] 

Enter the King, Warwick, Thomas Duke of Clarence, 
Humphrey of Gloucester [and others']. 

King. Now, lords, if God doth give successful end 
To this debate that bleedeth at our doors, 
We will our youth lead on to higher fields 
And draw no swords, but what are sanctified. 4 

Our navy is address'd, our power collected, 
Our substitutes in absence well invested, 
And everything lies level to our wish: 
Only, we want a little personal strength; 8 

And pause us, till these rebels, now afoot, 
Come underneath the yoke of government. 

War. Both which we doubt not but your majesty 
Shall soon enjoy. 

King. Humphrey, my son of Gloucester, 12 

141-143 tempering . . . seal: the allusion is to sealing-wax 

Scene Four S. d. Jerusalem Chamber; cf. n. 

5 address'd : prepared 6 invested: invested with authority 



King Henry the Fourth, IV. iv 



89 



Where is the prince your brother? 

Glo. I think he's gone to hunt, my lord, at Windsor. 

King. And how accompanied? 

Ql , I do not know, my lord. 

King. Is not his brother Thomas of Clarence with 
him? 16 

Glo. No, my good lord; he is in presence here. 

Cla. What would my lord and father ? 

King. Nothing but well to thee, Thomas of 
Clarence. 
How chance thou art not with the prince thy 
brother? 20 

He loves thee, and thou dost neglect him, Thomas ; 
Thou hast a better place in his affection 
Than all thy brothers : cherish it, my boy, 
And noble offices thou mayst effect 24 

Of mediation, after I am dead, 
Between his greatness and thy other brethren: 
Therefore omit him not ; blunt not his love, 
Nor lose the good advantage of his grace 28 

By seeming cold or careless of his will ; 
For he is gracious, if he be observ'd: 
He hath a tear for pity and a hand 
Open as day for melting charity; 32 

Yet, notwithstanding, being incens'd, he's flint; 
As humorous as winter, and as sudden 
As flaws congealed in the spring of day. 
His temper therefore must be well observ'd: 36 

Chide him for faults, and do it reverently, 
When you perceive his blood inclin'd to mirth ; 
But, being moody, give him line and scope, 
Till that his passions, like a whale on ground, 40 

27 omit: neglect 30 observ'd: humored 

33-35 Cf.n. 



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Confound themselves with working. Learn this, 

Thomas, 
And thou shalt prove a shelter to thy friends, 
A hoop of gold to bind thy brothers in, 
That the united vessel of their blood, 44 

Mingled with venom of suggestion — 
As, force perforce, the age will pour it in — 
Shall never leak, though it do work as strong 
As aconitum or rash gunpowder. 48 

Cla. I shall observe him with all care and love. 

King. Why art thou not at Windsor with him, 
Thomas ? 

Cla. He is not there to-day; he dines in London. 

King. And how accompanied? canst thou tell 
that? 52 

Cla. With Poins and other his continual followers. 

King. Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds; 
And he, the noble image of my youth, 
Is overspread with them: therefore my grief 56 

Stretches itself beyond the hour of death: 
The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape 
In forms imaginary the unguided days 
And rotten times that you shall look upon 60 

When I am sleeping with my ancestors. 
For when his headstrong riot hath no curb, 
When rage and hot blood are his counsellors, 
When means and lavish manners meet together, 64 
O ! with what wings shall his affections fly 
Towards fronting peril and oppos'd decay. 

War. My gracious lord, you look beyond him quite : 
The prince but studies his companions 68 

Like a strange tongue, wherein, to gain the language, 
'Tis needful that the most immodest word 

41 Confound: exhaust 44-48 Cf. n. 

65 affections: inclinations 67 look beyond: misjudge 



King Henry the Fourth, IV. iv 91 

Be look'd upon, and learn'd; which once attain'd, 
Your highness knows, comes to no further use 72 
But to be known and hated. So, like gross terms, 
The prince will in the perfectness of time 
Cast off his followers; and their memory- 
Shall as a pattern or a measure live, 76 
By which his Grace must mete the lives of others, 
Turning past evils to advantages. 

King. 'Tis seldom when the bee doth leave her 
comb 
In the dead carrion. 

Enter Westmoreland. 

Who's here? Westmoreland! 80 
West. Health to my sovereign, and new happiness 
Added to that that I am to deliver ! 
Prince John your son doth kiss your Grace's hand: 
Mowbray, the Bishop Scroop, Hastings and all 84 
Are brought to the correction of your law. 
There is not now a rebel's sword unsheath'd, 
But Peace puts forth her olive everywhere. 
The manner how this action hath been borne 88 

Here at more leisure may your highness read, 
With every course in his particular. 

King. O Westmoreland! thou art a summer bird, 
Which ever in the haunch of winter sings 92 

The lifting up of day. 

Enter Harcourt. 

Look! here's more news. 
Har. From enemies heaven keep your majesty; 
And, when they stand against you, may they fall 
As those that I am come to tell you of! 96 

77 mete: measure 79, 80 Cf. n. 

90 particular: detail 92 haunch: end 



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The Earl Northumberland, and the Lord Bardolph, 

With a great power of English and of Scots, 

Are by the sheriff of Yorkshire overthrown. 

The manner and true order of the fight 100 

This packet, please it you, contains at large. 

King. And wherefore should these good news make 
me sick? 
Will Fortune never come with both hands full 
But write her fair words still in foulest letters? 104 
She either gives a stomach and no food ; 
Such are the poor, in health; or else a feast 
And takes away the stomach; such are the rich, 
That have abundance and enjoy it not. 108 

I should rejoice now at this happy news, 
And now my sight fails, and my brain is giddy. 
O me! come near me, now I am much ill. 

Glo. Comfort, your majesty! 

Cla. O my royal father! 112 

West. My sovereign lord, cheer up yourself: look 
up! 

War. Be patient, princes: you do know these fits 
Are with his highness very ordinary: 
Stand from him, give him air; hell straight be 
well. 116 

Cla. No, no; he cannot long hold out these pangs: 
The incessant care and labour of his mind 
Hath wrought the mure that should confine it in 
So thin, that life looks through and will break out. 120 

Glo. The people fear me; for they do observe 
Unfather'd heirs and loathly births of nature: 
The seasons change their manners, as the year 

105 stomach: appetite 119 wrought the mure: worn the wall 

121 fear: frighten 

122 (Such portents as) creatures born without parents and other 
monstrosities 123 as: as if 



King Henry the Fourth, IV, v 93 

Had found some months asleep and leap'd them 
over. 124 

Cla. The river hath thrice flow'd, no ebb between; 
And the old folk, time's doting chronicles, 
Say it did so a little time before 

That our great-grandsire, Edward, sick'd and died. 128 

War. Speak lower, princes, for the king recovers. 

Glo. This apoplexy will certain be his end. 

King. I pray you take me up, and bear me hence 

Into some other chamber: softly, pray. 132 

[Attendants and Lords take the King up, convey 

him into an inner room, and lay him upon 

it.d^u*^. 7^ a e •-• xew«~^ 

Scene Five 
&*»A , [Another Chamber 

King Henry lying on a bed: Clarence, Gloucester, 
Warwick, and Others in attendance.] 

King. Let there be no noise made, my gentle 
friends ; 
Unless some dull and favourable hand 
Will whisper music to my weary spirit. 

War. Call for the music in the other room. 4 

King. Set me the crown upon my pillow here. 

Cla. His eye is hollow, and he changes much. 

War. Less noise, less noise! 

Enter Prince Henry. 

Prince. Who saw the Duke of Clarence? 

Cla. I am here, brother, full of heaviness. 8 

Prince. How now! rain within doors, and none 
abroad ! 

2 dull: soothing, drowsy 



94 The Second Part of 

How doth the king? 

Glo. Exceeding ill. 

Prince. Heard he the good news yet? 

Tell it him. 

Glo. He alter'd much upon the hearing it. 12 

Prince. If he be sick with joy, he'll recover 

without physic. 

War. Not so much noise, my lords. Sweet prince, 
speak low; 
The king your father is dispos'd to sleep. 16 

Cla. Let us withdraw into the other room. 

War. Will 't please your Grace to go along with 
us? 

Prince. No; I will sit and watch here by the king. 
[Exeunt all but the Prince.] 
Why doth the crown lie there upon his pillow, 20 
Being so troublesome a bedfellow? 
O polish'd perturbation! golden care! 
That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide 
To many a watchful night! Sleep with it now! 24 
Yet not so sound, and half so deeply sweet 
As he whose brow with homely biggin bound 
Snores out the watch of night. O maj esty ! 
When thou dost pinch thy bearer, thou dost sit 28 
Like a rich armour worn in heat of day, 
That scalds with safety. By his gates of breath 
There lies a downy feather which stirs not: 
Did he suspire, that light and weightless down 32 
Perforce must move. My gracious lord! my father! 
This sleep is sound indeed; this is a sleep 
That from this golden rigol hath divorc'd 
So many English kings. Thy due from me 36 

23 ports: gates 26 biggin: nightcap 

30 with safety : while it gives safety 32 suspire: breathe 

35 rigol: circle, crown 



King Henry the Fourth, IV. v 95 

Is tears and heavy sorrows of the blood, 

Which nature, love, and filial tenderness 

Shall, O dear father! pay thee plenteously: 

My due from thee is this imperial crown, 40 

Which, as immediate from thy place and blood, 

Derives itself to me. Lo! here it sits, 

[Putting it on his head.'] 
Which God shall guard; and put the world's whole 

strength 
Into one giant arm, it shall not force 44 

This lineal honour from me. This from thee 
Will I to mine leave, as 'tis left to me. Exit. 

King. [Waking.'] Warwick! Gloucester! Clarence! 

Enter Warwick, Gloucester, Clarence [and the rest]. 

Cla. Doth the king call? 

War. What would your majesty? How fares your 

Grace ? 48 

King. Why did you leave me here alone, my lords ? 
Cla. We left the prince my brother here, my liege, 
Who undertook to sit and watch by you. 

King. The Prince of Wales ! Where is he ? let me 

see him: 52 

He is not here. 

War. This door is open; he is gone this way. 
Glo. He came not through the chamber where we 

stay'd. 
King. Where is the crown? who took it from my 

pillow ? 56 

War. When we withdrew, my liege, we left it here. 
King. The prince hath ta'en it hence: go, seek him 

out. 
Is he so hasty that he doth suppose 

41 immediate: next in line 



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My sleep my death? 60 

Find him, my Lord of Warwick; chide him hither. 

[Exit Warwick. ] 
This part of his conjoins with my disease, 
And helps to end me. See, sons, what things you are ! 
How quickly nature falls into revolt 64 

When gold becomes her object! 
For this the foolish over-careful fathers 
Have broke their sleep with thoughts, 
Their brains with care, their bones with industry; 68 
For this they have engrossed and pil'd up 
The canker'd heaps of strange-achieved gold; 
For this they have been thoughtful to invest 
Their sons with arts and martial exercises: 72 

When, like the bee, culling from every flower 
The virtuous sweets, 

Our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey, 
We bring it to the hive, and like the bees, 76 

Are murder'd for our pains. This bitter taste 
Yield his engrossments to the ending father. 

Enter Warwick. 

Now, where is he that will not stay so long 

Till his friend sickness hath determin'd me? 80 

War. My lord, I found the prince in the next 
room, 
Washing with kindly tears his gentle cheeks, 
With such a deep demeanour in great sorrow 
That tyranny, which never quaff d but blood, 84 

Would, by beholding him, have wash'd his knife 
With gentle eye-drops. He is coming hither. 

King. But wherefore did he take away the crown? 

62 part: act t 69 engrossed: amassed 

70 canker d: tarnished strange-achieved: gained in foreign lands 

74 virtuous: beneficial 80 determin'd: ended 
82 kindly: natural 



King Henry the Fourth, IF. v 97 

Enter Prince Henry. 

Lo, where he comes. Come hither to me, Harry. 88 
Depart the chamber, leave us here alone. 

Exeunt [Warwick, and the rest]. 
Prince. I never thought to hear you speak again. 
King. Thy wish was father, Harry, to that 

thought : 
I stay too long by thee, I weary thee. 92 

Dost thou so hunger for mine empty chair 
That thou wilt needs invest thee with my honours 
Before thy hour be ripe? O foolish youth! 
Thou seek'st the greatness that will overwhelm 

thee. 96 

Stay but a little; for my cloud of dignity 
Is held from falling with so weak a wind 
That it will quickly drop: my day is dim. 
Thou hast stol'n that which after some few hours 100 
Were thine without offence; and at my death 
Thou hast seal'd up my expectation: 
Thy life did manifest thou lov'dst me not, 
And thou wilt have me die assur'd of it. 104 

Thou hid'st a thousand daggers in thy thoughts, 
Which thou hast whetted on thy stony heart, 
To stab at half an hour of my life. 
What! canst thou not forbear me half an hour? 108 
Then get thee gone and dig my grave thyself, 
And bid the merry bells ring to thine ear 
That thou art crowned, not that I am dead. 
Let all the tears that should bedew my hearse 112 
Be drops of balm to sanctify thy head: 
Only compound me with forgotten dust; 
Give that which gave thee life unto the worms. 
Pluck down my officers, break my decrees; 116 

102 seal'd up: confirmed fully 



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For now a time is come to mock at form. 

Harry the Fifth is crown'd! Up, vanity! 

Down, royal state ! all you sage counsellors, hence ! 

And to the English court assemble now, 120 

From every region, apes of idleness ! 

Now, neighbour confines, purge you of your scum: 

Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, 

Revel the night, rob, murder, and commit 124 

The oldest sins the newest kind of ways? 

Be happy, he will trouble you no more: 

England shall double gild his treble guilt. 

England shall give him office, honour, might; 128 

For the fifth Harry from curb'd licence plucks 

The muzzle of restraint, and the wild dog 

Shall flesh his tooth in every innocent. 

my poor kingdom ! sick with civil blows, 132 
When that my care could not withhold thy riots, 
What wilt thou do when riot is thy care? 

O ! thou wilt be a wilderness again, 
Peopled with wolves, thy old inhabitants. 136 

Prince. O ! pardon me, my liege ; but for my tears, 
The moist impediments unto my speech, 

1 had forestalTd this dear and deep rebuke 

Ere you with grief had spoke and I had heard 140 
The course of it so far. There is your crown; 
And he that wears the crown immortally 
Long guard it yours ! If I affect it more 
Than as your honour and as your renown, 144 

Let me no more from this obedience rise, — 
Which my most inward, true, and duteous spirit 
Teacheth, — this prostrate and exterior bending. 
God witness with me, when I here came in, 148 

And found no course of breath within your majesty, 

117 form: order 118 vanity: folly 134 care: special study 

139 dear: earnest 143 affect: aspire to 



King Henry the Fourth, IF. v 99 

How cold it struck my heart! if I do feign, 

O! let me in my present wildness die 

And never live to show the incredulous world 152 

The noble change that I have purposed. 

Coming to look on you, thinking you dead, 

And dead almost, my liege, to think you were, 

I spake unto the crown as having sense, 156 

And thus upbraided it: 'The care on thee depending 

Hath fed upon the body of my father; 

Therefore, thou best of gold art worst of gold: 

Other, less fine in carat, is more precious, 160 

Preserving life in medicine potable: 

But thou most fine, most honour' d, most renown'd, 

Hast eat thy bearer up.' Thus, my most royal liege, 

Accusing it, I put it on my head, 164 

To try with it, as with an enemy 

That had before my face murder'd my father, 

The quarrel of a true inheritor. 

But if it did infect my blood with joy, 168 

Or swell my thoughts to any strain of pride; 

If any rebel or vain spirit of mine 

Did with the least affection of a welcome 

Give entertainment to the might of it, 172 

Let God for ever keep it from my head, 

And make me as the poorest vassal is 

That doth with awe and terror kneel to it ! 

King. O my son! 176 

God put it in thy mind to take it hence, 
That thou mightst win the more thy father's love, 
Pleading so wisely in excuse of it. 
Come hither, Harry: sit thou by my bed; 180 

And hear, I think, the very latest counsel 
That ever I shall breathe. God knows, my son, 

161 medicine potable; cf. n. 



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By what by-paths and indirect crook'd ways 

I met this crown; and I myself know well 184 

How troublesome it sat upon my head: 

To thee it shall descend with better quiet, 

Better opinion, better confirmation; 

For all the soil of the achievement goes 188 

With me into the earth. It seem'd in me 

But as an honour snatch'd with boisterous hand, 

And I had many living to upbraid 

My gain of it by their assistances; 192 

Which daily grew to quarrel and to bloodshed, 

Wounding supposed peace. All these bold fears 

Thou seest with peril I have answered; 

For all my reign hath been but as a scene 196 

Acting that argument; and now my death 

Changes the mode: for what in me was purchas'd, 

Falls upon thee in a more fairer sort; 

So thou the garment wear'st successively. 200 

Yet, though thou stand'st more sure than I could do, 

Thou art not firm enough, since griefs are green; 

And all my friends, which thou must make thy 

friends, 
Have but their stings and teeth newly ta'en out ; 204 
By whose fell working I was first advanc'd, 
And by whose power I well might lodge a fear 
To be again displac'd: which to avoid, 
I cut them off; and had a purpose now 208 

To lead out many to the Holy Land, 
Lest rest and lying still might make them look 
Too near unto my state. Therefore, my Harry, 
Be it thy course to busy giddy minds 212 

With foreign quarrels; that action, hence borne out, 

188 soil: pollution 197 argument: story 

198 mode; cf. n. purchas'd: acquired by my own act, not inherited 

200 successively : by right of succession 
213 hence: in other lands 



King Henry the Fourth, IV. v 101 

May waste the memory of the former days. 

More would I, but my lungs are wasted so 

That strength of speech is utterly denied me. 216 

How I came by the crown, O God, forgive! 

And grant it may with thee in true peace live. 

Prince. My gracious liege, 
You won it, wore it, kept it, gave it me; 220 

Then plain and right must my possession be: 
Which I with more than with a common pain 
'Gainst all the world will rightfully maintain. 
Enter Lord John of Lancaster, and Warwick. 

King. Look, look, here comes my John of Lan- 
caster. 224 

Lane. Health, peace, and happiness to my royal 
father ! 

King. Thou bring'st me happiness and peace, son 
John; 
But health, alack, with youthful wings is flown 
From this bare wither'd trunk: upon thy sight 228 
My worldly business makes a period. 
Where is my Lord of Warwick? 

Prince. My Lord of Warwick! 

[Warwick comes forward.] 

King. Doth any name particular belong 
Unto the lodging where I first did swound? 232 

War. 'Tis call'd Jerusalem, my noble lord. 

King. Laud be to God! even there my life must 
end. 
It hath been prophesied to me many years 
I should not die but in Jerusalem, 236 

Which vainly I suppos'd the Holy Land. 
But bear me to that chamber; there I'll lie: 
In that Jerusalem shall Harry die. Exeunt. 

214 waste: consume 



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ACT FIFTH 

Scene One 
[Justice Shallow's House in Gloucestershire'] 

Enter Shallow, Falstaff, Bardolph [and Bardolph's 
boy]. 

Shal. By cock and pie, sir, you shall not away 
to-night. What! Davy, I say. 

Fal. You must excuse me, Master Robert 
Shallow. 4 

Shal. I will not excuse you; you shall not be 
excused; excuses shall not be admitted; there 
is no excuse shall serve; you shall not be ex- 
cused. Why, Davy! 8 

Enter Davy. 

Davy. Here, sir. 

Shal. Davy, Davy, Davy, Davy, let me see, 
Davy; let me see: yea, marry, William cook, bid 
him come hither. Sir John, you shall not be 12 
excused. 

Davy. Marry, sir, thus; those precepts can- 
not be served: and again, sir, shall we sow the 
headland with wheat? 16 

Shal. With red wheat, Davy. But for William 
cook: are there no young pigeons? 

Davy. Yes, sir. Here is now the smith's note 
for shoeing and plough-irons. 20 

Shal. Let it be cast and paid. Sir John, you 
shall not be excused. 

Davy. Now, sir, a new link to the bucket 

1 cock and pie; cf. n. 14 precepts: summonses 

21 cast: reckoned 



King Henry the Fourth, V. i ios 

must needs be had : and, sir, do you mean to 24 
stop any of William's wages, about the sack he 
lost the other day at Hinckley fair? 

Shal. A' shall answer it. Some pigeons, 
Davy, a couple of short-legged hens, a joint of 28 
mutton, and any petty little tiny kickshaws, 
tell William cook. 

Davy. Doth the man of war stay all night, 
sir ? 32 

Shal. Yea, Davy. I will use him well. A 
friend i' the court is better than a penny in 
purse. Use his men well, Davy, for they are 
arrant knaves, and will backbite. 36 

Davy. No worse than they are back-bitten, 
sir; for they have marvellous foul linen. 

Shal. Well conceited, Davy: about thy busi- 
ness, Davy. 40 

Davy. I beseech you, sir, to countenance 
William Visor of Wincot against Clement Perkes 
o' the hill. 

Shal. There is many complaints, Davy, 44 
against that Visor: that Visor is an arrant 
knave, on my knowledge. 

Davy. I grant your worship that he is a 
knave, sir ; but yet, God forbid, sir, but a knave 48 
should have some countenance at his friend's 
request. An honest man, sir, is able to speak for 
himself, when a knave is not. I have served 
your worship truly, sir, this eight years ; and if 52 
I cannot once or twice in a quarter bear out a 
knave against an honest man, I have but a very 
little credit with your worship. The knave is 

29 kickshaws: fancy dishes 39 Well conceited: cleverly put 

41 countenance: favor 



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mine honest friend, sir ; therefore, I beseech your 56 
worship, let him be countenanced. 

Shal. Go to; I say he shall have no wrong. 
Look about, Davy. [Exit Davy.] Where are you, 
Sir John ? Come, come, come ; off with your 60 
boots. Give me your hand, Master Bardolph. 

Bard. I am glad to see your worship. 

Shal. I thank thee with all my heart, kind 
Master Bardolph: — [To the Page.] and wel- 64 
come, my tall fellow. Come, Sir John. 

Fal. I'll follow you, good Master Robert 
Shallow. [Exit Shallow.] Bardolph, look to 
our horses. [Exeunt Bardolph and Page.] If I 68 
were sawed into quantities, I should make four 
dozen of such bearded hermit's staves as Master 
Shallow. It is a wonderful thing to see the 
semblable coherence of his men's spirits and his : 72 
they, by observing him, do bear themselves like 
foolish justices; he, by conversing with them, is 
turned into a justice-like serving-man. Their 
spirits are so married in conjunction with the 76 
participation of society that they flock together 
in consent, like so many wild-geese. If I had a 
suit to Master Shallow, I would humour his men 
with the imputation of being near their master: 80 
if to his men, I would curry with Master Shallow 
that no man could better command his servants. 
It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant 
carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one of 84 
another: therefore let men take heed of their 
company. I will devise matter enough out of 
this Shallow to keep Prince Harry in continual 

69 quantities: small pieces 

72 semblable coherence: approach to likeness 

78 consent: agreement 



King Henry the Fourth, V. ii !05 

laughter the wearing out of six fashions, — which 88 
is four terms, or two actions, — and a' shall laugh 
without intervallums. O ! it is much that a lie 
with a slight oath and a jest with a sad brow 
will do with a fellow that never had the ache in 92 
his shoulders. O ! you shall see him laugh till 
his face be like a wet cloak ill laid up ! 

Shal. [Within.] Sir John! 

Fat. I come, Master Shallow : I come, Master 96 
Shallow. [Exit.] 



Scene Two 
[Westminster. The Palace] 

Enter the Earl of Warwick and the Lord Chief 
Justice. 

War. How now, my Lord Chief Justice! whither 
away? 

Ch. Just. How doth the king? 

War. Exceeding well: his cares are now all ended. 

Ch. Just. I hope not dead. 

War. He's walk'd the way of nature; 4 

And to our purposes he lives no more. 

Ch. Just. I would his maj esty had call'd me with 
him: 
The service that I truly did his life 
Hath left me open to all injuries. 8 

War. Indeed I think the young king loves you not. 

Ch. Just. I know he doth not, and do arm myself 
To welcome the condition of the time, 
Which cannot look more hideously upon me 12 

89 terms: i.e., of court actions: legal actions for debt 

90 intervallums: in tervals 91 sad: sober 
94 ill laid up: carelessly put away 



106 The Second Part of 

Than I have drawn it in my fantasy. 

Enter John of Lancaster, Gloucester, Clarence 
[Westmoreland, and others]. 

War. Here come the heavy issue of dead Harry: 
O! that the living Harry had the temper 
Of him, the worst of these three gentlemen. 16 

How many nobles then should hold their places, 
That must strike sail to spirits of vile sort! 

Ch. Just. O God ! I fear all will be overturn'd. 

Lane. Good morrow, cousin Warwick, good mor- 
row. 20 

Glo. 



:} 



, Good morrow, cousin. 
Cla. 

Lane. We meet like men that had forgot to speak. 

War. We do remember; but our argument 

Is all too heavy to admit much talk. 24 

Lane. Well, peace be with him that hath made us 

heavy ! 

Ch. Just. Peace be with us, lest we be heavier ! 

Glo. O ! good my lord, you have lost a friend 

indeed; 

And I dare swear you borrow not that face 28 

Of seeming sorrow; it is sure your own. 

Lane. Though no man be assur'd what grace to 

find, 

You stand in coldest expectation. 

I am the sorrier ; would 'twere otherwise. 32 

Cla. Well, you must now speak Sir John Falstaff 

fair, 

Which swims against your stream of quality. 

Ch. Just. Sweet princes, what I did, I did in 

honour, 

14 heavy: sorrowful 23 argument: subject of conversation 

31 coldest: most hopeless 34 Cf.n. 



King Henry the Fourth, V. ii 107 

Led by the impartial conduct of my soul; 36 

And never shall you see that I will beg 
A ragged and forestall'd remission. 
If truth and upright innocency fail me, 
I'll to the king my master that is dead, 40 

And tell him who hath sent me after him. 
War. Here comes the prince. 

Enter the Prince and Blunt. 

Ch. Just. Good morrow, and God save your 
maj esty ! 

Prince. This new and gorgeous garment, maj- 
esty, 44 
Sits not so easy an me as you think. 
Brothers, you mix your sadness with some fear: 
This is the English, not the Turkish court; 
Not Amurath an Amurath succeeds, 48 
But Harry Harry. Yet be sad, good brothers, 
For, by my faith, it very well becomes you: 
Sorrow so royally in you appears 
That I will deeply put the fashion on 52 
And wear it in my heart. Why then, be sad; 
But entertain no more of it, good brothers, 
Than a joint burden laid upon us all. 
For me, by heaven, I bid you be assur'd, 56 
I'll be your father and your brother too; 
Let me but bear your love, I'll bear your cares: 
Yet weep that Harry's dead, and so will I ; 
But Harry lives that shall convert those tears 60 
By number into hours of happiness. 

Brothers. We hope no other from your majesty. 

Prince. You all look strangely on me: [To the 
Chief Justice.'] and you most; 

38 ragged: beggarly 

forestall'd remission : pardon that is sure not to be granted 
48 Cf. n. 



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You are, I think, assur'd I love you not. 64 

Ch. Just. I am assur'd, if I be measur'd rightly, 
Your majesty hath no just cause to hate me. 

Prince. No? 
How might a prince of my great hopes forget 68 
So great indignities you laid upon me? 
What ! rate, rebuke, and roughly send to prison 
The immediate heir of England! Was this easy? 
May this be wash'd in Lethe, and forgotten? 72 

Ch. Just. I then did use the person of your 
father ; 
The image of his power lay then in me: 
And, in the administration of his law, 
Whiles I was busy for the commonwealth, 76 

Your highness pleased to forget my place, 
The majesty and power of law and justice, 
The image of the king whom I presented, 
And struck me in my very seat of judgment; 80 

Whereon, as an offender to your father, 
I gave bold way to my authority, 
And did commit you. If the deed were ill, 
Be you contented, wearing now the garland, 84 

To have a son set your decrees at nought, 
To pluck down justice from your awful bench, 
To trip the course of law, and blunt the sword 
That guards the peace and safety of your person : 88 
Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image 
And mock your workings in a second body. 
Question your royal thoughts, make the case yours; 
Be now the father and propose a son, 92 

Hear your own dignity so much profan'd, 
See your most dreadful laws so loosely slighted, 

71 easy: trivial 72 Lethe: the river of oblivion 

73 use the person: make use of my position as personal representative 
79 presented: represented 84 garland: crown 

90 second body: deputy 92 propose: imagine 



King Henry the Fourth, V. ii 109 

Behold yourself so by a son disdain'd; 

And then imagine me taking your part, 96 

And in your power soft silencing your son: 

After this cold considerance, sentence me; 

And, as you are a king, speak in your state 

What I have done that misbecame my place, 100 

My person, or my liege's sovereignty. 

Prince. You are right, justice; and you weigh this 
well; 
Therefore still bear the balance and the sword: 
And I do wish your honours may increase 104 

Till you do live to see a son of mine 
Offend you and obey you, as I did. 
So shall I live to speak my father's words: 
'Happy am I, that have a man so bold 108 

That dares do justice on my proper son; 
And not less happy, having such a son, 
That would deliver up his greatness so 
Into the hands of justice.' You did commit me: 112 
For which, I do commit into your hand 
The unstained sword that you have us'd to bear; 
With this remembrance, that you use the same 
With the like bold, just, and impartial spirit 116 

As you have done 'gainst me. There is my hand: 
You shall be as a father to my youth; 
My voice shall sound as you do prompt mine ear, 
And I will stoop and humble my intents 120 

To your well-practis'd wise directions. 
And, princes all, believe me, I beseech you; 
My father is gone wild into his grave, 
For in his tomb lie my affections; 124 

And with his spirit sadly I survive, 

98 considerance : consideration 

103 balance and the sword: emblems of Justice 

109 proper: own 115 remembrance: admonition 

123, 124 Cf. n. 125 sadly: soberly 



no The Second Part of 

To mock the expectation of the world, 

To frustrate prophecies, and to raze out 

Rotten opinion, who hath writ me down 128 

After my seeming. The tide of blood in me 

Hath proudly flow'd in vanity till now: 

Now doth it turn and ebb back to the sea, 

Where it shall mingle with the state of floods 132 

And flow henceforth in formal majesty. 

Now call we our high court of parliament; 

And let us choose such limbs of noble counsel, 

That the great body of our state may go 136 

In equal rank with the best govern'd nation; 

That war or peace, or both at once, may be 

As things acquainted and familiar to us; 

In which you, father, shall have foremost hand. 140 

Our coronation done, we will accite, 

As I before remember'd, all our state: 

And, God consigning to my good intents, 

No prince nor peer shall have just cause to say, 144 

God shorten Harry's happy life one day. Exeunt. 



Scene Three 

[The Garden of Justice Shallow's House in 
Gloucestershire] 

Enter Sir John, Shallow, Silence, Davy, Bardolph, 
Page. 

Shal. Nay, you shall see my orchard, where, 
in an arbour, we will eat a last year's pippin of 

129 After my seeming: according to appearances 

132 state of floods: majesty of the ocean 

137 In equal rank: step by step 141 accite: summon 

142 remember'd: mentioned 143 consigning to : confirming 



King Henry the Fourth, V. Hi 1 * 1 

mine own grafting, with a dish of caraways, and 
so forth; come, cousin Silence; and then to bed. 4 

Fal. 'Fore God, you have here a goodly 
dwelling, and a rich. 

Shal. Barren, barren, barren; beggars all, 
beggars all, Sir John: marry, good air. Spread, 8 
Davy; spread: well said, Davy. 

Fal. This Davy serves you for good uses; he 
is your serving-man and your husband. 

Shal. A good varlet, a good varlet, a very 12 
good varlet, Sir John: by the mass, I have 
drunk too much sack at supper: a good varlet. 
Now sit down, now sit down. Come, cousin. 

Sil. Ah, sirrah! quoth a', we shall 16 

'Do nothing but eat, and make good cheer, 
And praise God for the merry year; 
When flesh is cheap and females dear, 
And lusty lads roam here and there, 20 

So merrily. 
And ever among so merrily.' 

Fal. There's a merry heart! Good Master 
Silence, I'll give you a health for that anon. 24 

Shal. Give Master Bardolph some wine, Davy. 

Davy. Sweet sir, sit; I'll be with you anon: 
most sweet sir, sit. Master page, good master 
page, sit. Proface ! What you want in meat 28 
we'll have in drink: but you must bear: the 
heart's all. [Exit.] 

Shal. Be merry, Master Bardolph; and my 
little soldier there, be merry. 32 

3 grafting : grafting caraways: confection made with caraway seeds 

9 said: done 11 husband: husbandman 

22 ever among: all the while 

28 Proface: may; it do you good (Italian 'pro vi faccia') 

30 heart: intention 



112 The Second Part of 

Sil. 'Be merry, be merry, my wife has all; 

For women are shrews, both short and tall: 
'Tis merry in hall when beards wag all, 

And welcome merry Shrove-tide. 36 

Be merry, be merry.' 

Fal. I did not think Master Silence had been 
a man of this mettle. 

Sil. Who, I? I have been merry twice and 40 
once ere now. 

[Enter Davy.] 

Davy. There's a dish of leather-coats for you. 

[Setting them before Bardolph.~\ 
Shal. Davy! 

Davy. Your worship ! I'll be with you straight. 44 
A cup of wine, sir? 

Sil. 'A cup of wine that's brisk and fine 
And drink unto the leman mine; 

And a merry heart lives long-a.' 48 

Fal. Well said, Master Silence. 

Sil. And we shall be merry, now comes in the 
sweet o' the night. 

Fal. Health and long life to you, Master 52 
Silence. 

Sil. 'Fill the cup, and let it come; 

I'll pledge you a mile to the bottom.' 

Shal. Honest Bardolph, welcome: if thou want- 56 
est anything and wilt not call, beshrew thy heart. 
[To the Page.] Welcome, my little tiny thief; 
and welcome indeed too. I'll drink to Master 
Bardolph and to all the cavaleros about London. 60 

36 Shrove-tide: a time of special merriment at the close of the 

carnival 42 leather-coats : russet apples 

47 leman: sweetheart 60 cavaleros: cavaliers 



King Henry the Fourth, V. Hi 113 

Davy. I hope to see London once ere I die. 

Bard. An I might see you there, Davy, — 

Shal. By the mass, you'll crack a quart to- 
gether: ha! will you not, Master Bardolph? 64 

Bard. Yea, sir, in a pottle-pot. 

Shal. By God's liggens, I thank thee. The 
knave will stick by thee, I can assure thee that: 
a' will not out; he is true bred. 68 

Bard. And I'll stick by him, sir. 

Shal. Why, there spoke a king. Lack nothing: 
be merry. [One knocks at the door.~\ 

Look who's at door there. Ho ! who knocks ? 72 

[Exit Davy.] 

Fal. [To Silence, who drinks a bumper.] 
Why, now you have done me right. 

Sil. 'Do me right, 

And dub me knight: 76 

Samingo/ 
Is 't not so? 
Fal. Tis so. 

Sil. Is 't so ? Why, then, say an old man can 80 
do somewhat. 

[Enter Davy.] 

Davy. An 't please your worship, there's one 
Pistol come from the court with news. 

Fal. From the court ! let him come in. 84 

Enter Pistol. 

How now, Pistol! 

Pist. Sir John, God save you, sir ! 

66 liggens: an original oath of Shallow's 

68 will not out: will not fail (sporting term) 

74 done me right: a common expression in drinking healths 

76 dub me knight; cf. n. 

77 Samingo: San Domingo, a common refrain in drinking songs 



ii^ The Second Part of 

Fal. What wind blew you hither, Pistol? 
Pist. Not the ill wind which blows no man to 
good. 88 

Sweet knight, thou art now one of the greatest 
men in this realm. 

Sil. By 'r lady, I think a' be, but goodman 
Puff of Barson. 92 

Pist. Puff! 
Puff in thy teeth, most recreant coward base ! 
Sir John, I am thy Pistol and thy friend, 
And helter-skelter have I rode to thee, 96 

And tidings do I bring and lucky joys 
And golden times and happy news of price. 

Fal. I prithee now, deliver them like a man of this 

world. 
Pist. A foutra for the world and worldlings 
base ! 100 

I speak of Africa and golden joys. 

Fal. O base Assyrian knight, what is thy news ? 
Let King Cophetua know the truth thereof. 

Sil. 'And Robin Hood, Scarlet, and John/ 104 

Pist. Shall dunghill curs confront the Helicons? 
And shall good news be baffled? 
Then, Pistol, lay thy head in Furies' lap. 

Shal. Honest gentleman, I know not your 108 
breeding. 

Pist. Why then, lament therefore. 

Shal. Give me pardon, sir: if, sir, you come 
with news from the court, I take it there's but 112 
two ways: either to utter them, or to conceal 
them. I am sir, under the king, in some authority. 

91 but: except 92 Barson: Barston in Warwickshire 

98 price: value 100 foutra: exclamation of contempt 

103, 104 These lines refer to popular ballads 105 Cf. n. 



King Henry the Fourth, V, in us 

Pist. Under which king, Bezonian? speak, or 

die. 116 

Shal. Under King Harry. 

Pist. Harry the Fourth? or Fifth? 

Shal. Harry the Fourth. 

Pist. A foutra for thine office! 

Sir John, thy tender lambkin now is king; 
Harry the Fifth's the man. I speak the truth: 120 
When Pistol lies, do this; and fig me, like 
The bragging Spaniard. 

Fal. What! is the old king dead? 

Pist. As nail in door: the things I speak are 

just. 124 

Fal. Away, Bardolph! saddle my horse. 
Master Robert Shallow, choose what office thou 
wilt in the land, 'tis thine. Pistol, I will double 
charge thee with dignities. 128 

Bard. O joyful day! 
I would not take a knighthood for my fortune. 

Pist. What! I do bring good news. 

Fal. Carry Master Silence to bed. Master 132 
Shallow, my Lord Shallow, be what thou wilt, I 
am Fortune's steward. Get on thy boots: we'll 
ride all night. O sweet Pistol ! Away, Bardolph ! 
[Exit Bardolph.] Come, Pistol, utter more to 136 
me; and withal devise something to do thyself 
good. Boot, boot, Master Shallow: I know the 
young king is sick for me. Let us take any 
man's horses; the laws of England are at my 140 
commandment. Blessed are they which have 
been my friends, and woe to my lord chief 
justice! 

115 Bezonian: base beggar 

121 fig: to thrust the thumb between two closed fingers, or into the 

mouth, a vulgar insult, imported from Spain 
124 just: correct 



116 The Second Part of 

Pist. Let vultures vile seize on his lungs also ! 144 
'Where is the life that late I led?' say they: 
Why, here it is : welcome these pleasant days ! 

Exeunt. 



Scene Four 

[London. A Street] 

Enter Hostess Quickly, Doll Tearsheet, and Beadles. 

Host. No, thou arrant knave: I would to God 
that I might die that I might have thee hanged; 
thou hast drawn my shoulder out of joint. 

First Bead. The constables have delivered 4 
her over to me, and she shall have whipping- 
cheer enough, I warrant her: there hath been a 
man or two lately killed about her. 

Dol. Nut-hook, nut-hook, you lie. Come on; 8 
I'll tell thee what, thou damned tripe-visaged 
rascal, an the child I now go with do miscarry, 
thou wert better thou hadst struck thy mother, 
thou paper-faced villain. 12 

Host. O the Lord! that Sir John were come; 
he would make this a bloody day to somebody. 
But I pray God the fruit of her womb miscarry ! 

First Bead. If it do, you shall have a dozen 16 
of cushions again; you have but eleven now. 
Come, I charge you both go with me ; for the man 
is dead that you and Pistol beat amongst you. 

Dol. I'll tell you what, you thin man in a 20 
censer, I will have you as soundly swinged for 

145 Quotation from another ballad 

8 nut-hook: slang for beadle; cf. catchpole 

20, 21 in a censer: i.e., a figure embossed on a censer 

21 swinged: whipped 



King Henry the Fourth, V.v 117 

this, you blue-bottle rogue! you filthy famished 
correctioner ! if you be not swinged, I'll for- 
swear half-kirtles. 24 
First Bead. Come, come, you she knight-errant, 

come. 

Host. O God, that right should thus overcome 
might! Well, of sufferance comes ease. 

Dol. Come, you rogue, come: bring me to 28 
a justice. 

Host. Ay; come, you starved blood-hound. 

Dol. Goodman death ! goodman bones ! 

Host. Thou atomy, thou ! 32 

Dol. Come, you thin thing; come, you rascal! 

First Bead. Very well. Exeunt. 

Scene Five 

[A public Place near Westminster Abbey] 

Enter two Grooms, strewers of rushes. 

First Groom. More rushes, more rushes. 

Sec. Groom. The trumpets have sounded 
twice. 

First Groom. 'Twill be two o'clock ere they 4 
come from the coronation. Dispatch, dispatch. 

Exeunt Grooms. 

Trumpets sound, and the King and his train pass 
over the stage. After them, enter Falstaff, 
Shallow, Pistol, Bardolph, and the Boy. 

Fal. Stand here by me, Master Robert Shal- 
low; I will make the king do you grace. I will 

22 blue-bottle: the reference is to the beadle's blue livery 
24 half-kirtles: waists or skirts 27 of sufferance: out of suffering 

32 atomy: Dame Quickly' s confusion of 'atom' with 'anatomy' = 
skeleton 



118 The Second Part of 

leer upon him, as a' comes by; and do but mark 8 
the countenance that he will give me. 

Pist. God bless thy lungs, good knight. 

Fal. Come here, Pistol; stand behind me. 
O ! if I had had time to have made new liveries, 12 
I would have bestowed the thousand pound I 
borrowed of you. But 'tis no matter; this poor 
show doth better: this doth infer the zeal I had 
to see him. 16 

Shal. It doth so. 

Fal. It shows my earnestness of affection. 

Shal. It doth so. 

Fal. My devotion. 20 

Shal. It doth, it doth, it doth. 

Fal. As it were, to ride day and night; and 
not to deliberate, not to remember, not to have 
patience to shift me. 24 

Shal. It is best, certain. 

Fal. But to stand stained with travel, and 
sweating with desire to see him; thinking of 
nothing else ; putting all affairs else in oblivion, 28 
as if there were nothing else to be done but to 
see him. 

Pist. 'Tis semper idem, for absque hoc nihil est: 
'Tis all in every part. 32 

Shal. 'Tis so, indeed. 
Pist. My knight, I will inflame thy noble liver, 
And make thee rage. 

Thy Doll, and Helen»of thy noble thoughts, 36 

Is in base durance and contagious prison; 
Hal'd thither 
By most mechanical and dirty hand: 

31, 32 Cf. n. 39 mechanical: common, vulgar 



King Henry the Fourth, V.v 119 

Rouse up revenge from ebon den with fell Alecto's 
snake, 40 

For Doll is in: Pistol speaks nought but truth. 
Fal. I will deliver her. 

[Shouts within and trumpets sound.] 
Pist. There roar'd the sea, and trumpet-clangour 
sounds. 

The trumpets sound. Enter King Henry the Fifth, 
Brothers, Lord Chief Justice. 

Fal. God save thy grace, King Hal ! my royal 44 
Hal! 

Pist. The heavens thee guard and keep, most 
royal imp of fame! 

Fal. God save thee, my sweet boy! 48 

K. Hen. V. My lord chief justice, speak to that 

vain man. 
Ch. Just. Have you your wits ? know you what 'tis 

you speak? 
Fal. My king! my Jove! I speak to thee, my 

heart ! 
K. Hen. V. I know thee not, old man: fall to thy 
prayers ; 52 

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester! 
I have long dream'd of such a kind of man, 
So surfeit-swell'd, so old, and so profane; 
But, being awak'd, I do despise my dream. 56 

Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace; 
Leave gormandising; know the grave doth gape 
For thee thrice wider than for other men. 
Reply not to me with a fool-born jest: 60 

Presume not that I am the thing I was; 
For God doth know, so shall the world perceive, 

40 ebon : black Alecto : one of tlie Furies 

47 imp: child 49 vain: foolish 



120 The Second Part of 

That I have turn'd away my former self; 

So will I those that kept me company. 64 

When thou dost hear I am as I have been, 

Approach me, and thou shalt be as thou wast, 

The tutor and the feeder of my riots: 

Till then, I banish thee, on pain of death, 68 

As I have done the rest of my misleaders, 

Not to come near our person by ten mile. 

For competence of life I will allow you, 

That lack of means enforce you not to evil: 72 

And, as we hear you do reform yourselves, 

We will, according to your strength and qualities, 

Give you advancement. Be it your charge, my lord, 

To see perform'd the tenour of our word. 76 

Set on. Exit the King [with his Train], 

Fal. Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand pound. 
Shal. Yea, marry, Sir John; which I beseech 

you to let me have home with me. 80 

Fal. That can hardly be, Master Shallow. Do 

not you grieve at this: I shall be sent for in 

private to him. Look you, he must seem thus 

to the world. Fear not your advancements ; I 84 

will be the man yet that shall make you great. 
Shal. I cannot perceive how, unless you give 

me your doublet and stuff me out with straw. 

I beseech you, good Sir John, let me have five 88 

hundred of my thousand. 

Fal. Sir, I will be as good as my word: this 

that you heard was but a colour. 

Shal. A colour that I fear you will die in, Sir 92 

John. 

Fal. Fear no colours: go with me to dinner. 

92 colour: pun on collar, halter 

94 Fear no colours: have no fear; originally, fear no enemy 



King Henry the Fourth, V.v 121 

Come, Lieutenant Pistol; come, Bardolph: I 
shall be sent for soon at night. 96 

Enter Justice and Prince John. 

Ch.Just. Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet; 
Take all his company along with him. 

Fal. My lord, my lord ! 

Ch.Just. I cannot now speak: I will hear you 
soon. 100 

Take them away. 

Pist. Si fortuna me tormenta, spero contenta. 
Exeunt. Mane\n\t [Prince John of] Lancaster 

and Chief Justice. 

Lane. I like this fair proceeding of the king's. 
He hath intent his wonted followers 104 

Shall all be very well provided for; 
But all are banish'd till their conversations 
Appear more wise and modest to the world. 

Ch. Just. And so they are. 108 

Lane. The king hath call'd his parliament, my 
lord. 

Ch. Just. He hath. 

Lane. I will lay odds, that, ere this year expire, 
We bear our civil swords and native fire 112 

As far as France. I heard a bird so sing, 
Whose music, to my thinking, pleas'd the king. 
Come, will you hence? Exeunt. 

97 the Fleet: a London prison 106 conversations: habits 



122 The Second Part of 

EPILOGUE 

[Spoken by a Dancer.] 

First, my fear; then, my curtsy; last my 
speech. My fear is, your displeasure, my 
curtsy, my duty, and my speech, to beg your 
pardon. If you look for a good speech now, you 4 
undo me; for what I have to say is of mine 
own making; and what indeed I should say 
will, I doubt, prove mine own marring. But to 
the purpose, and so to the venture. Be it known 8 
to you, — as it is very well, — I was lately here in 
the end of a displeasing play, to pray your 
patience for it and to promise you a better. I 
did mean indeed to pay you with this ; which, 12 
if like an ill venture it come unluckily home, I 
break, and you, my gentle creditors, lose. Here, 
I promised you I would be, and here I commit 
my body to your mercies: bate me some and I 16 
will pay you some; and, as most debtors do, 
promise you infinitely. 

If my tongue cannot entreat you to acquit me, 
will you command me to use my legs ? and yet 20 
that were but light payment, to dance out of your 
debt. But a good conscience will make any 
possible satisfaction, and so will I. All the 
gentlewomen here have forgiven me: if the 24 
gentlemen will not, then the gentlemen do not 
agree with the gentlewomen, which was never 
seen before in such an assembly. 

One word more, I beseech you. If you be not 28 
too much cloyed with fat meat, our humble 

Epilogue ; cf. n. 7 doubt : fear 

14 break: become bankrupt 16 bate: remit 



King Henry the Fourth, Epil. 123 

author will continue the story, with Sir John in 
it, and make you merry with fair Katharine of 
France : where, for anything I know, Falstaff 32 
shall die of a sweat, unless already a' be killed 
with your hard opinions; for Oldcastle died a 
martyr, and this is not the man. My tongue is 
weary ; when my legs are too, I will bid you 36 
good night: and so kneel down before you; but, 
indeed, to pray for the queen. 

38 to pray for the queen; cf. n. 



NOTES. 

Ind. S. d. Rumour, painted full of tongues. Vergil 
(Mneid iv. 174) describes Fame, or Rumour, as cov- 
ered with ears, eyes, and tongues. Cf. also Chaucer, 
Hous of Fame, 1389-90. 

Ind. 24. Shrewsbury. The last act of Shake- 
speare's Henry IV, Part I, is devoted to the battle of 
Shrewsbury, in which the King and his armies over- 
come the rebel forces under young Harry Percy 
(Hotspur) ; his uncle, the Earl of Worcester; and the 
Scottish Earl of Douglas. 

Ind. 29. Harry Monmouth. Henry, Prince of 
Wales, who, according to Shakespeare, killed Hot- 
spur in single combat at the battle of Shrewsbury. 
Monmouth was the place of his birth. 

Ind. 35. hole. Shakespeare is obviously playing 
on the words hole and hold. Most modern editors have 
spoiled the rather poor pun by substituting the word 
hold for hole. 

I. i. 116-118. 'By his spirit was his party inspired, 
i.e., made keen and sharp as steel; but, when once 
his spirit was brought down (technically, reduced to 
a lower temper) all his followers became dull and 
heavy as lead.' 

I. i. 128. In 1 Henry IV, V. iii., Douglas kills 
Sir Walter Blunt, who was dressed to resemble the 
King, and tells us that he has already killed the Lord 
of Stafford in the king's 'likeness.' When, later, 
Prince Hal challenges Douglas to single combat, he 
says: 

'the spirits 
Of valiant Shirley, Stafford, Blunt, are in my arms.' 

I. i. 166-179. These lines are the first of a series 
of passages omitted in the Quarto texts of the play 



Second Part of King Henry the Fourth 125 

and added by the Folio. The other important Folio 
additions are the following: I. i. 189-209; I. iii. 21- 
24; I. iii. 36-55; I. iii. 85-108; II. iii. 23-45; IV. i. 
55-79; Epilogue 37, 38 (and so kneel . . . queen). 
Furthermore, the whole of III. i., containing the 
King's famous soliloquy on sleep, is omitted in cer- 
tain Quarto copies, though added in others. On the 
other hand, certain passages, usually shorter and 
belonging to the prose scenes, are omitted in the 
Folio version; viz., I. ii. 244-251 (But it was . . . 
motion) ; II. ii. 26-31 (and God . . . strengthened) ; 
II. iv. 14, 15 (Dispatch . . . straight); II. iv. 144- 
146; II. iv. 428 f. (Come! . . . come, Doll?); III. 
i. 53-56 (O! . . . die); III. ii. 340, 341 (yet lech- 
erous . . . mandrake) ; III. ii. 342-345 (and sung 
. . . good-nights); IV. i. 93; IV. i. 95. 

I. i. 204, 205. According to Shakespeare, King 
Richard II, predecessor and cousin of Henry IV, 
was murdered in Pomfret castle at Henry's hint, 
after the latter had forced Richard's abdication. Cf. 
Shakespeare's Richard II. Richard Scroop, Arch- 
bishop of York, belonged to a family which was 
firmly attached to the cause of Richard. 

I. i. 208. Bolingbrohe. King Henry, born in 
Bolingbroke castle, Lincolnshire. 

I. ii. 18. manned with an agate. Attended by a 
servant as small as a figure cut in an agate. 

I. ii. 25. face-royal. A royal was a gold coin 
worth ten shillings. Falstaff is here playing on the 
double sense of a 'royal face' and the face stamped 
on the coin. 

I. ii. 38. glutton. The parable of Dives and 
Lazarus (St. Luke 16. 19-31) is frequently referred 
to by Falstaff, possibly because Dives, 'the glutton/ 
who 'fared sumptuously every day/ but who went to 
hell and called out for the poor man Lazarus to 'dip 
the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue,' 



126 The Second Part of 

reminds Falstaff of his own manner of life and prob- 
able fate. 

I. ii. 39. Achitophel. The counsellor of Absalom 
(II Samuel 15-17) who was cursed by David, and 
who 'gat him home to his house and hanged himself 
after Absalom rejected his counsel. 

I. ii. 40. yea-forsooth knave. The reference is to 
the mild oaths employed by the Puritanical middle- 
class tradespeople of Shakespeare's own day. Cf. Hot- 
spur's ridicule of this same trait in 1 Henry IV, III. 
i. 251 ff. 

I. ii. 51-54. Falstaff is here playing with the 
ancient jest that deceived husbands wear invisible 
horns. Lightness is obviously used in a double sense, 
and the old spelling of lanthorn, which emphasizes 
the horn sides of an Elizabethan lantern, carries out 
the jest. 

I. ii. 57. Paul's. The nave of St. Paul's Cathedral 
was in Shakespeare's day the business center of Lon- 
don. From eleven to twelve, and three to six, daily, 
men of all professions and trades congregated there. 
Men out of work, and masters looking for servants, 
posted their advertisements on the pillars of the nave. 
Falstaff is probably referring here to a popular say- 
ing, quoted in The Choice of Change, 1598: 'A man 
must not make choice of three things in three places: 
of a wife in Westminster, of a servant in Paul's, of a 
horse in Smithfield; lest he choose a quean, a knave, 
or a jade.' Smithfield is the great cattle market of 
London. 

I. ii. 61, 62. This episode from The Famous Vic- 
tories of Henry V is reprinted in Appendix A, see 
pp. 142, 143. 

I. ii. 102. hunt counter. A hunting term mean- 
ing to follow the trail in a direction opposite to that 
which the game has taken. There is also perhaps 



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here a pun on the two Compters, or debtors', prisons 
in London. 

I. ii. 166-168. Blind beggars often had dogs to 
lead them through the streets. 

I. ii. 182. wax. 'A poor quibble on the word wax, 
which signifies increase as well as the matter of the 
honey-comb.' Johnson. 

I. ii. 189-192. An angel was a gold coin, worth 
upwards of six shillings, which took its name from 
its device, the archangel Michael. Falstaff is here 
punning on the word, and in the phrases cannot go 
and cannot tell, he is perhaps using terms which re- 
fer to the circulation of money, meaning 'I cannot 
pass current. I cannot count as good coin.' 

I. ii. 241. spit white. Furnivall quotes Batman 
uppon Bartholome (1582): 'If the spettle be white 
viscus, the sicknesse cometh of fleame; if black, of 
melancholy; — the white spettle not knottie, signifieth 
health.' 

I. ii. 257. bear crosses. Another quibble on coins, 
many of which were marked with crosses. 

I. ii. 259. A three-man beetle is a mallet so heavy 
that it requires three men to swing it. Filliping the 
toad, according to Steevens, is a Warwickshire game, 
in which a toad is placed on the end of a short board 
placed across a log; the other end of the board is 
then struck with a mallet, and the toad thrown into 
the air. If Falstaff took the part of the toad in this 
game, it would, he implies, require a three-man beetle 
to fillip one of his size. 

I. iii. 36-41. Many emendations have been sug- 
gested for this apparently corrupt passage. It is 
probable that a line has been lost here, but it is pos- 
sible to understand Lord Bardolph's speech without 
changing the text. Lord Hastings has just been 
remonstrating with Lord Bardolph for his pessimism, 
saying that hope never injured any cause. Lord 



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Bardolph replies : 'Yes, it does, — if, for example, this 
present business of war (indeed this very action now 
contemplated, this cause that is now on foot), lives 
merely on such desperate hopes as buds which ap- 
pear too early in the spring; for hope gives less 
warrant that these buds will become fruit than de- 
spair gives that the frosts will destroy them.' 

I. iii. 53-55. 'Know how well able our estate is to 
undergo such a work, and how well able it is to bal- 
ance the power of our opponent/ 

II. i. 36, 37. When Dame Quickly says, 'A hun- 
dred mark is a long one/ i.e., a long mark, score, or 
reckoning, she puns on a hundred marks as a debt 
and a hundred yard mark at archery. 

II. i. 67, 68. rampallian. Elizabethan slang, ras- 
cal, rapscallion; used also by Beaumont and Fletcher. 
Fustilarian, a word coined by Falstaff, suggested 
by the word fustilugs, a fat, frowsy woman. Catas- 
trophe, in the sense of conclusion, end ; used j ocularly 
here for the posteriors. 

II. i. 145. Falstaff has the legal right to demand 
protection against the just claims of Mistress 
Quickly, as he is about to set forth for the north on 
the King's business. The Chief Justice admits his 
'power to do wrong' in this matter, but urges him to 
answer the poor woman's suit in a manner suitable 
to his reputation as a gentleman and soldier. 

II. i. 159. Falstaff tries to comfort Mistress 
Quickly for the loss of her plate by assuring her that 
glasses are much more fashionable and pleasanter to 
drink from than silver goblets. 

II. i. 210. 'This is the proper behaviour in fenc- 
ing.' Falstaff refers to his inattention to the Justice's 
remarks as a retaliation for the Justice's inattention 
to his questions in 11. 184 ff. 

II. ii. 25-31. Shirts were made of holland linen 



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(worth 'eight shillings an ell/ cf. 1 Henry IV, III. 
iii. 83). The play on the words holland and low- 
countries is apparent. The Prince proceeds to as- 
sume that Poins's shortage in shirts is due to the fact 
that his old shirts are serving as garments for his 
illegitimate children, who 'bawl out' from 'the ruins 
of his linen.' 

II. ii. 95-100. Either Shakespeare or the Page 
confuses the dream of Hecuba with that of Althea. 
Althea dreamed that the Fates told her that her new- 
born son would live only so long as a burning brand 
on the hearth remained unconsumed. Althea snatched 
the brand from the hearth, extinguished the fire, and 
prolonged her son's life. 

II. ii. 112. martlemas. Corrupted form of Mar- 
tinmas, or the Feast of St. Martin, November 11. 
This day was considered the last day of autumn, 
and was also the day for salting and hanging the 
winter's supply of beef. The reference is obviously 
to Falstaff's hearty old age (cf. All-hallown sum- 
mer, 1 Henry IV, I. ii. 177, note), or to Falstaff as a 
'martlemas beef.' 

II. ii. 127, 128. borrower's cap. A man asking 
for a loan is always very ready to take off his cap. 

II. ii. 130 ff. Most modern editors have rear- 
ranged the following speeches, giving to Poins the 
reading of Falstaff's letter to Hal. The Quarto and 
Folio arrangement, followed with one exception (cf. 
Appendix C) in this text, seems more natural. In 
lines 109, 110 Bardolph evidently gives the letter to 
the Prince, not to Poins. In line 119 the Prince shows 
the letter to Poins, but does not necessarily give it to 
him. 

II. ii. 192, 193. The parallel is not striking. Jove 
took the form of a bull to woo Europa. Hal dis- 
guises himself as a waiter to spy upon Falstaff. The 
leather jerkins are the only connecting link. 



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II. iv. 36. The ballad sung by Falstaff has been 
preserved in Percy's Reliques. 

II. iv. 52. Another scrap of an old ballad. 

II. iv. 91. debuty. Mistress Quickly's pronun- 
ciation of deputy, and of Wednesday in line 93, both 
of which are corrected in the Folio text, indicates that 
she has a cold in her head. 

II. iv. 104, 105. tame cheater. A cant term for a 
low gamester, especially for a gamester's decoy. 
Mistress Quickly understands the word in the sense of 
escheator, or officer of the exchequer. The Cam- 
bridge editors suggest the emendation chetah, the 
hunting leopard, known in Europe as early as the 
fifteenth century. The sentence, you may stroke him 
as gently as a puppy greyhound, would indicate at 
least that Falstaff is playing on the two words 
cheater and chetah. One would hardly speak of 
stroking a gamester's decoy. 

II. iv. 159. occupy. This word was used only in 
an obscene sense in Shakespeare's day. From the 
sixteenth to the nineteenth century it seldom appears 
in literature. 

II. iv. 172. Have we not Hiren here? This 
phrase, which became proverbial in Elizabethan 
drama, probably originated in a lost play by George 
Peele, entitled, The Turkish Mahomet and Hyren 
(Irene) the Fair Greek. Pistol applies the name to 
his sword. Mistress Quickly (11. 189, 190) thinks 
he is inquiring for some woman. 

II. iv. 177, 178. Pistol misquotes from Marlowe's 
Tamburlaine the Great, Pt. II, IV, iv: 

'Holla, ye pamper'd jades of Asia! 
What ! can ye draw but twenty miles a day ?' 

II. iv. 192. Another burlesque of contemporary 
drama. This time Shakespeare puts into Pistol's 
mouth a reference to Peele's Battle of Alcazar, 



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printed in 1594, in which Muley Mahomet enters 
with lion's flesh on his sword, which he offers to his 
wife with the words, 

Teed then and faint not, my fair Calypolis.' 

II. iv. 194. Most editors assume that Pistol is 
speaking bad Italian. The Cambridge editors sug- 
gest that it is perhaps bad Spanish, and that he is 
reading the motto on his Toledo blade. Douce gives 
an illustration of a sword with a French version of 
this motto inscribed upon it. Farmer says: 'Pistol 
is only a copy of Hannibal Gonsaga who vaunted on 
yielding himself a prisoner, as you may read in an 
old collection of tales called Wits, Fits, Fancies: 

Si Fortuna me tormenta 
II speranza me contenta.' 

Whatever the language, the meaning of Pistol's motto 
is, If Fortune torments me, Hope contents me. 

II. iv. 205. shove-groat shilling. Shove-groat 
was a game which was a cross between shuffle-board 
and 'pitching pennies.' It was played on a board 
three feet long and a foot wide, and the object of the 
players was to shove coins into numbered spaces at 
the far end of the board. 

II. iv. 267. drinks . . . flapdragons. Flapdragon 
or snapdragon is a sport which consists in snapping 
raisins or grapes from burning brandy and eating 
them. 

II. iv. 286. An impossible conjunction of planets. 

II. iv. 288. fiery Trigon. Poins continues the 
astrological figure by referring to the red-nosed Bar- 
dolph as the fiery Trigon. When the three superior 
planets were in that division of the zodiac which 
consisted of the three so-called fiery signs, Aries, 
Leo, and Sagittarius, they were said to be in the 
fiery Trigon, or triangle; when they were in Cancer, 



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Scorpio, and Pisces, they were in the watery Trigon, 
etc. 

II. iv. 363. dead elm. Shakespeare mentions elms 
three times, — here and in The Comedy of Errors, 
II. ii. 176, and in A Midsummer Night's Dream, IV. 
i. 49. In both C. of E. and M. N. D. the reference 
is to the practice of training ivy on elm trees, illus- 
trating the relation of woman to man. Poins is 
therefore probably referring to the posture of Fal- 
staff and Doll. 

III. ii. 28, 29. Sir John Oldcastle and Sir John 
Fastolfe, with both of whom Falstaff has been identi- 
fied (cf. 1 Henry IV, this edition, Appendix C 3), 
were both pages to the Duke of Norfolk in their 
youth. 

III. ii. 33. Skogan. Shakespeare probably took 
the name from a jest book published in 1565, called 
Scogin's Jests. This Scogin was the court fool of 
King Edward IV. It is possible, however, that the 
reference is to Chaucer's friend, Henry Scogan, de- 
scribed by Ben Jonson in The Fortunate Isles as 'a 
fine gentleman, and master of arts, of Henry the 
Fourth's time.' 

III. ii. 73. accommodated. This is one of the 
words which Ben Jonson (Discoveries) refers to as 
one of 'the perfumed terms of the time.' Bardolph is 
giving himself airs and imitating the affectations of 
fashionable gallants. 

III. ii. 239. Bullcalf means to say: 'Here, in 
French crowns, is the equivalent of four English ten- 
shilling pieces, or ten-shilling pieces with King 
Henry's head on them.' As a matter of fact Henry 
VII was the first English king whose head appeared 
on ten shilling pieces. 

III. ii. 264. three pound. Falstaffs followers 
adopt his own methods. Bardolph has collected four 



King Henry the Fourth 133 

pounds, forty shillings from each of the two men, but 
decides to keep a commission of twenty-five per cent. 

III. ii. 285. gibbets. A brewer's gibbet was the 
yoke worn across the shoulders for carrying buckets 
of beer from the vat to the barrels. Falstaff refers 
to the dexterity with which brewers' men swing the 
buckets on to the gibbet. 

III. ii. 301-303. Sir Dagonet was King Arthur's 
fool. Arthur's show was an exhibition of archery 
held annually at Mile-end Green by a society called 
The Auncient Order, Societie, and Unitie laudable 
of Prince Arthur and his Knightly Armoury of the 
Round Table. There were fifty-eight members and 
each took the name of one of the knights in the old 
romances. 

III. ii. 346. Vice's dagger. The Vice, a character 
in the old Morality plays, carried a thin wooden 
dagger. ^ 

III. ii. 357. philosopher's two stones. The phi- 
losophers' stone is the reputed stone of the alchemists 
which transmutes base metals into gold. Falstaff 
decides that Justice Shallow will be as valuable to 
him as two philosophers' stones! 

IV. i. 94-96. This passage is obviously corrupt. 
The archbishop means in general: 'I make this my 
quarrel on both public and private grounds, that is, 
because of the sufferings of the commonwealth and 
of my own family at the hands of King Henry.' The 
Archbishop's brother, an adherent of King Richard, 
had been executed by King Henry's order; cf. 1 
Henry IV, I. iii. 270. 

IV. i. 117 ff. This contest is described in the first 
act of Shakespeare's Richard II. 

IV. i. 175. consigned. The Quarto and Folio read 
confin'd; consign'd is Johnson's emendation. The 
meaning seems to be that the terms of surrender in- 



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elude the stipulation that the execution of the wishes 
of the rebels shall be consigned to their own hands. 

IV. ii. Shakespeare evidently had no thought of 
a change of scene, or of pause in action, here. Even 
the first Folio has no stage direction of exeunt at 
the end of Scene i., and no indication of scene divi- 
sion. I have kept the conventional modern arrange- 
ment for convenience of reference; but the reader 
should remember that the Archbishop and his party 
do not leave the stage, — they merely step forward 
to greet Prince John as he enters. 

IV. iii. 125. a mere hoard of gold kept by a devil. 
Falstaff refers to the old superstition that gold mines 
were guarded by devils. 

IV. iv. S. d. The Jerusalem Chamber. An apart- 
ment adjoining the southwest tower of Westminster 
Abbey, built in the fourteenth century as a guest- 
chamber, and deriving its name from the tapestries 
depicting the history of Jerusalem with which it was 
hung. Since the seventeenth century it has been 
used as a council chamber. 

IV. iv. 33-35. 'Nevertheless when he is incensed 
he breaks out in fiery fashion like flint; he abounds 
in caprices as winter abounds in moisture; and he 
changes his moods as suddenly as water freezes and 
melts at the edge of a pond at daybreak/ Flaws 
are the blades of ice seen on the edges of water on 
winter mornings. 

IV. iv. 44-48. 'That the vessel of their united 
blood may never leak, even though that blood should 
be mingled with the venom caused by hints and sug- 
gestions tending toward discord, which in this age 
will be sure to be poured in; and even though this 
venom should work with the strength of aconite or 
gunpowder.' 

IV. iv. 79, 80. 'It seldom happens that the bee, 
having deposited her comb in dead carrion, leaves the 



King Henry the Fourth 135 

comb and the carrion.' The application is to the 
Prince and his low company. 

IV. v. 161. medicine potable. 'There has long 
prevailed an opinion that a solution of gold has 
great medicinal virtues, and that the incorruptibility 
of gold might be communicated to the body impreg- 
nated with it.' Johnson. 

IV. v. 198. mode. The key in which music is 
written, used figuratively and associated with 'mood' 
in the sense of state of mind. 

V. i. 1. cock and pie. The origin of this common 
Elizabethan oath is obscure. Cock is probably a 
corruption of God, as in the oath Cock's wounds; 
and pie is perhaps the Roman service book which 
was sometimes so called, though the word pie applies 
more properly to the index of the service book. By 
Shakespeare's time the meaning of the oath was for- 
gotten, and Justice Shallow doubtless thinks he is 
swearing by a cock and a magpie. 

V. ii. 34. 'Which goes against the grain with one 
in your position.' 

V. ii. 48. This allusion helps to fix the date of the 
play. Amurath the Fourth succeeded his father on 
the Turkish throne in 1596. Upon his accession he 
invited his brothers to dinner and had them all 
strangled. 

V. ii. 123, 124. This strange remark of the Prince 
seems to mean that inasmuch as his own wild affec- 
tions and desires died at the moment of his father's 
death, they are now, as it were, buried with his 
father. Hence his father may be said to be buried 
with wild affections, or to have 'gone wild into his 
grave.' 

V. iii. 76. dub me knight. The reference is to the 
Elizabethan custom of giving the title of knight for 
the evening to a man who, kneeling to his mistress, 
drained a mighty bumper to her health. 



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V. iii. 105. Helicon was the abode of the Muses. 
Pistol resents having such low fellows as Robin Hood 
and his men brought into this very grandiloquent 
literary conversation. 

V. v. 31, 32. Pistol quotes two Latin phrases 
which have no significance here, and then proceeds 
to mistranslate them. The Latin means literally: it 
is always the same, for without this there is nothing. 

Epil. Shakespeare's authorship of this epilogue 
has been questioned. The dancer says it is of his 
own making, but he speaks for the author in promis- 
ing a continuation of the play and in assuring the 
audience that Falstaff is not Sir John Oldcastle (cf. 
note on III. ii. 28, 29, and Appendix C 3 to 1 Henry 
IV , in the present edition). It is interesting to note 
that Shakespeare's original intention was to continue 
the Falstaff plot through the play of Henry V ; but, 
as Coleridge remarks, 'Agincourt is not the place for 
the splendid mendacity of Falstaff. With the coro- 
nation of Henry V opens a new period of glorious 
enthusiasm and patriotic fervor. There is no longer 
any place for Falstaff on earth; he must find refuge 
in "Arthur's bosom." ' 

Epil. 38. fray for the queen. It was the custom 
to end plays with a prayer for the sovereign. This 
custom originated in the interludes. 



APPENDIX A 
Sources of the Play 

The principal source of the main plot of this play 
is the 1587 edition of The Chronicles of England, 
Scotland, and Ireland, by Raphael Holinshed. Sam- 
uel Daniel's poem, The Civill Wars of England 
(1595), or its source, may well have had some influ- 
ence. Several incidents in the comic plot are taken, 
apparently, from the play The Famous Victories of 
Henry V, first acted in 1588, licensed in 1594, and 
published in 1598. 

Holinshed' s Chronicle 

According to Holinshed, the Earl of Northumber- 
land was pardoned by the king after the battle of 
Shrewsbury in 1403. But in 1405 when 'the king 
was minded to haue gone into Wales against the 
rebels that vnder their cheeftane Owen Glendower 
ceassed not to doo much mischeef against the Eng- 
lish subiects,' he was 'further disquieted' by a 'con- 
spiracie put in practise against him at home by the 
Earle of Northumberland who had conspired with 
Richard Scroope, Archbishop of Yorke, Thomas 
Mowbraie earle marshall,' and others. 'The King 
aduertised of these matters left his iournie into Wales 
and marched with all speed toward the north parts. 
Also Rafe Neuill earl of Westmerland, that was not 
farre off, together with the lord Iohn of Lancaster, 
the king's sonne, being informed of this rebellious 
attempt, assembled togither such power as they might 
make . . . made forward against the rebels, and 
coming into a plaine within the forrest of Galtree 
caused their standards to be pitched downe in the 
like sort as the Archbishop had pitched his ouer 



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against them, being farre stronger in number of peo- 
ple than the other, for as some write there were of 
the rebels at least twentie thousand men.' 

Shakespeare follows Holinshed closely in describ- 
ing the 'subtill policie' whereby the rebels are dis- 
posed of; but he transfers the odium attaching to this 
action from the earl of Westmoreland to Lord John 
of Lancaster. 

The events of the next eight years, as related by 
Holinshed, are unnoticed in the play. Shakespeare 
proceeds immediately to the death of the king, and 
again follows the Chronicle closely. '1413. The 
morrow after Candlemas daie began a parlement 
which the king had called at London, but he departed 
this life before the same parlement was ended; for 
now that his prouisions were readie and that he was 
furnished with sufficient treasure, soldiers, capteins, 
vittels, munitions, tall ships, strong gallies, and all 
things necessarie for such a roiall iournie as he pre- 
tended to take into the holie land, he was eftsoones 
taken with a sore sicknesse, which was not a leprosie 
striken by the hand of God, as foolish friars imag- 
ined, but a verie apoplexie. . . . During this sick- 
nesse he caused his crowne to be set on a pillow at 
his bed's head, and suddenlie his pangs so sore trou- 
bled him that he laie as though all his vitall spirits 
had beene from him departed. Such as were about 
him couered his face with a linen cloth. The prince, 
his sonne, being hereof aduertised, entered into the 
chamber, tooke awaie the crowne, and departed. The 
father being suddenlie reuiued out of that trance 
quicklie perceiued the lacke of his crowne ; and hauing 
knowledge that the prince his sonne had taken it 
awaie caused him to come before his presence requir- 
ing of him what he meant so to misuse himself. The 
prince with a good audacitie answered, Sir, to mine 
and all mens iudgements you seemed dead in this 
world, wherefore I as youre next heire apparent tooke 



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King Henry the F ourth 

that as mine owne, and not as yours. Well, faire 
sonne, said the king with a great sigh, what right I 
had to it God knoweth. Well, said the prince, if you 
die king, I will haue the garland and trust to keepe 
it with the sword against all mine enemies as you 
haue done. Then said the king, I commit all to God, 
and remember you to doo well. With that he turned 
himself in his bed and shortlie after departed to 
God in a chamber of the abbats of Westminster called 
Ierusalem, . . . when he had reigned thirteene yeares 
in great perplexitie and little pleasure.' 

Holinshed then tells us that 'king Henrie the fift 
was crowned the ninth of Aprill, being Passion Sun- 
daie, which was a sore, ruggie, and tempestuous daie, 
with wind, snow, and sleet, that men greatlie mar- 
uelled thereat, making diuerse interpretations what 
that might signifie. But this king, to show that in 
his person princelie honors should change publike 
manners, he determined to put on him the shape of a 
new man. For whereas aforetime he had made him- 
self a companion vnto misrulie mates of dissolute 
order and life, he now banished them all from his 
presence, but not vnrewarded or else vnpreferred, 
inhibiting them vpon a great paine not once to ap- 
proach, lodge, or soiourne within ten miles of his 
court or presence: and in their places he chose men 
of grauitie, wit, and high policie, by whose wise 
councel he might at all times rule to his honor and 
dignity; calling to mind how once to hie offence of 
the king his father he had with his fist striken the 
cheefe iustice for sending one of his minions, vpon 
desert, to prison, when the iustice stoutlie commanded 
himself also streict to ward, and the prince obeied.' 

Daniel's Civill Wars 

In the fourth book of his Civill Wars, Daniel con- 
denses history even more radically than Shakespeare. 



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The king falls sick immediately after his victory at 
Shrewsbury, and is afflicted by spectres of Conscience 
and Death. He commands 

'some that attending were 
To fetch the crowne and set it in his sight; 
On which with fixed eye and heauie cheere 
Casting a looke, O God, sayeth he, what right 
I had to thee my soule doth now conceiue, — 
Thee which with blood I got, with horror leave.' 

Horror so overwhelms the king that he swoons — 

'When loe his Sonne comes in and takes away 
The fatall crowne from thence and out he goes 
As if unwilling longer time to lose.' 

The king revives, summons the prince, and says: 

'O sonne, what needes thee make such speed 
Vnto that care where feare exceedes thy right, 
And when his sinne whom thou shalt now succeed 
Shall still upbraide thy inheritance of might? 
And if thou canst liue, and liue great, from woe, 
Without this carefull trauaille, let it goe.' 

The prince replies : 

'What wrong hath not continuance quite outworne? 
Yeeres make that right which neuer was so borne.' 

The king dies praying that virtuous deeds and the 
holy wars of his son may atone for his own sins. 

The Famous Victories of Henry V 

In this crude play Prince Hal is twice committed 
to prison, once by the Lord Mayor for rioting in 
the streets after a merry evening at the tavern in 
Eastcheap, and once by the Lord Chief Justice for 
giving him 'a box on the ear' upon his refusal to 
pardon one of the prince's companions who has been 
convicted of highway robbery. 



King Henry the Fourth 141 

The following are characteristic selections: 

Enter Henry the fourth, with the earle of Exeter and 
the earle of Oxford. 

Oxf. Please your maiestie, heere is my Lord maior 
and the sheriffe of London. 

King Hen. Jf.. Admit them to our presence. 

Enter the Maior and the Sheriffe. 

Now, my good Lord Maior of London, 
the cause of my sending to you at this time is to tel 
you of a matter which I have learned of my councell: 
Herein I understand that you haue committed my 
sonne to prison without our leaue and license. What 
although he be a rude youth and likely to give occa- 
sion, yet you might haue considered that he is a 
Prince and my sonne, and not to be hailed to prison 
by euery subiect. 

Maior. May it please your maiestie to give us 
leaue to tell our tale. 

King Hen. Jf. Or else God forbid, otherwise you 
might think me an vnequall Iudge, hauing more affec- 
tion to my sonne then to any rightfull iudgement. 

Maior. Then if it please your Maiestie, this night 
betwixt two and three of the clocke of the morning, 
my Lord the young Prince with a very disordered 
companie, came to the olde Tauerne in Eastcheape, 
and whether it was that their Musicke liked them not, 
or whether they were ouercome with wine, I know 
not, but they drew their swords and into the street 
they went, and some toke my Lord the yong Princes 
part, and some tooke the other, but betwixt them 
there was such a bloodie fray for the space of half 
an houre, that neither watchmen nor any other could 
stay them, till my brother the Sheriffe of London 
and I were sent for, and at the laste with much adoo 
we staied them, but it was long first, which was a 
great disquieting to all your louing subiects there- 



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abouts : and then my good Lord, we knew not whether 
your grace had sent them to trie vs, whether we would 
doe iustice, or whether it were of their owne volun- 
tarie will or not, we cannot tell, and therefore for 
our owne safegard we sent him to ward where he 
wanteth nothing that is fit for his grace. 

King Hen. Jf. Stand aside vntill we haue further 
deliberated on your answere. 

Exit Maior. 

Hen. If.. Ah Harry, Harry, now thrice accursed 

Harry, 
That hath gotten a sonne which with greefe 
Will end his fathers dayes. 
Oh my sonne, a Prince thou art, I a Prince 

indeed, 
And to deserue punishment 
And well haue they done, and like faithfull sub- 

iects : 
Discharge them and let them go. 

Exit omnes. 



A little later the Lord Chief Justice is conducting 
the trial of one Cuthbert Cutter, a follower of Prince 
Hal's, for having robbed 'a poore Carrier vpon Gads 
hill in Kent.' The Prince enters, with 'Ned and Tom/ 
and demands the release of his man who has but 
robbed 'in iest.' The Chief Justice is courteous but 
resolute. 

Hen. 5. Tell me, my lord, shall I haue my man ? 

Iudge. I cannot, my lord. 

Hen. 5. But will you not let him go ? 

Iudge. I am sorrie his case is so ill. 

Hen. 5. Tush, case me no casings, shall I haue my 
man? 

Judge. I cannot, nor I may not, my lord. 



King Henry the Fourth 14 3 

Hen. 5. No: then I will haue him. 

He giueth him a box on the eare. 
Ned. Gogs wounds, my lord, shal I cut off his head? 
Hen. 5. No, I charge you draw not your swords, 
But get you hence, prouyde a noyse of Musitians, 
Away, be gone. 

Exeunt the Theefe. 
Iudge. Well, my Lord, I am content to take it at 

your hands. 
Hen. 5. Nay, and you be not you shall haue more. 
Iudge. Why, I pray you, my Lord, who am I? 
Hen. 5. You, who knowes not you ? 

Why man, you are the Lord chiefe Justice of 
England. 
Iudge. Your grace hath said truth, therefore in 
striking me in this place, you greatly abuse me, and 
not me onely but also your father: whose liuely per- 
son here in this place I doo represent. And there- 
fore to teach you what prerogatiues meane, I commit 
you to the Fleete, Vntill we haue spoken to your 
father. 

Hen. 5. Why then belike you meane to send me to 
the Fleete? 

Iudge. I, indeed, and therefore carry him away. 

Exeunt Hen. 5. with the Officers. 

The scene of the Prince's repentance and reconcilia- 
tion with his father, which Shakespeare uses in 
1 Henry IV, in The Famous Victories immediately 
precedes the following scene in the King's death- 
chamber. The King is sleeping. 

Enter Lord of Exeter and Oxford. 

Exe. Come easily, my Lord, for waking of the 

King. 
Hen. J/.. Now, my Lords. 

Oxf. How doth your Grace feele yourself e? 
Hen. J^.. Somewhat better after my sleepe, 



144 The Second Part of 

But good my lords take off my crowne, 
Remove my chair a little backe, and set me right. 
Ambo. And please your grace, the crowne is taken 

away. 
Hen. Jf. The Crowne taken away, 

Good my lord of Oxford, go see who hath done 

this deed: 
No doubt tis some vilde traitor that hath done it, 
To depriue my sonne. They that would do it 

now 
Would seeke to scrape and scrawle for it after 

my death. 

Enter Lord of Oxford with the Prince. 

Oxf. Here and please your Grace, 

Is my Lord the yong Prince with the Crowne. 
Hen. Jf.. Why how now my sonne ? 

I had thought the last time I had you in school- 
ing, 

And do you now begin againe? 

Doest thou thinke the time so long 

That thou wouldest haue it before the 

Breath be out of my mouth? 
Hen. 5. Most soueraign Lord, and welbeloued 
father, 

I came into your Chamber to comfort the melan- 
choly 

Soule of your bodie, and finding you at that 
time 

Past all recouerie, and dead to my thinking, 

God is my witness: and what should I doo 

But with weeping tears lament the death of you 
my father, 

And after that seeing the Crowne I tooke it: 

And tell me my father, who might better take 
it then I, 

After your death? But seeing you liue 



King Henry the Fourth 145 

I most humbly render it into your Maiesties 

hands 
And the happiest man aliue, that my father liue: 
And liue my Lord and Father for euer. 
Hen. Jf. Stand vp my sonne, 

Thine answere hath sounded wel in mine eares, 
For I must nedes confesse that I was in a very 

sound sleepe. 
But come neare my sonne, 

And let me put thee in possession whilst I liue. 
Hen. 5. Well may I take it at your maiesties hands, 
But it shall neuer touch my head so long as my 
father liues. 

He taketh the crowne. 

The King blesses his son, prophesies a glorious 
reign, calls for music, draws the curtains of his bed, 
and dies. After the coronation of the new King 
there is a conversation between the King and three of 
his old followers, Ned, Tom, and Iockey, who accost 
him as he appears in state with the Archbishop of 
Canterbury, and remind him of his promise to make 
Ned Lord Chief Justice. 

Hen. 5. I prethee Ned, mend thy manners, 
And be more modester in thy tearmes, 
For my vnfeigned greefe is not to be ruled by 

thy flattering 
And dissembling talke. Thou saiest I am 

chaunged, 
So I am indeed, and so must thou be and that 

quickly, 
Or else I must cause thee to be chaunged. 
Tom. I trust we haue not offended your grace no 

way. 
Hen. 5. Ah, Tom, your former life greeves me, 
And makes me to abandon and abolish your 
company for euer. 



146 The Second Part of 

And therefore not vpon paine of deeth to ap- 

proch my presence 
By ten miles space. Then if I heare wel of you, 
It may be I will do somewhat for you, 
Otherwise looke for no more fauour at my hands 
Then at any other mans. And therefore be gone, 
We haue other matters to talke on. 

Exeunt Knights. 



APPENDIX B 
The History of the Play 

The success of Henry IV, Part I, led Shakespeare, 
apparently, to write the second part as a sequel. 
The date of its composition may be definitely stated 
as lying somewhere between 1596 and 1599. The 
death of Amurath III, to which reference is made in 
V. ii. 48, occurred in 1596; and in Ben Jonson's 
Every Man out of his Humour (Act V. sc. ii.), writ- 
ten in 1599, reference is made to Justice Silence. 
That Henry IV, Part II, was written before Henry V 
is evidenced by the unfulfilled promise in the Epi- 
logue of the present play (see the note on that pas- 



An acting version of the play, the only known 
contemporary Quarto edition, was printed in 1600 
and entered on the Stationers' Register on August 
23 of that year. The full text of the play appeared 
for the first time in the First Folio in 1623. Of the 
many contemporary allusions to the play of Henry 
IV and the characters of the play, the following 
refer unquestionably to Part II. 

(1) Sir Charles Percy, third son of the twentieth 
Earl of Northumberland, Lord of Dumbleton in 
Gloucestershire, a follower of the Earl of Essex, and 



King Henry the Fourth 1*7 

an admirer, perhaps a friend, of Shakespeare's, 
writes in a letter dated December 27, 1G00 (?): "I 
am here so pestered with country business that I shall 
not be able as yet to come to London. If I stay 
here long in this fashion, at my return you will find 
me so dull that I shall be taken for Justice Shallow 
or Justice Silence." 

(2) Dekker in Satiromastix (1602), Ad Lectorem, 
refers to Master Justice Shallow. 

(3) Ben Jonson in Epiccene (1609), II. v., re- 
fers to Doll Tearsheet. 

Of early performances and players of Henry IV, 
Part II, there are even fewer records than there are 
of Part I. James Wright in his Historia Histrionica 
(1699) says that 'before the wars' Lowin acted Fal- 
staff 'with mighty applause.' Pepys, who attended 
at least three revivals of the first part of the play be- 
tween 1660 and 1668, makes no mention of any Res- 
toration revival of the second part. In 1700 Better- 
ton, after a triumphant revival of Part I, undertook 
a revision and revival of Part II. His version held 
the stage for many years, and is reprinted in Lacy's 
Acting Edition of Old Plays. Chetwood tells an 
amusing anecdote concerning Betterton's interpreta- 
tion of the part of Falstaff in Part II. Johnson, an 
actor, while playing in Dublin, had seen Baker, a 
master-pavior, play Falstaff. Upon his return to 
England he gave Mr. Betterton the manner of Baker's 
playing, which the great actor not only approved of, 
but imitated, and allowed that it was better than his 
own. 

Betterton's arrangement of the play was as fol- 
lows: 

Act I begins with I. ii. ; then follow the scene at 
the Archbishop's, and the arrest of Falstaff from 
Act II. 



148 The Second Part of 

Act II contains the rest of Shakespeare's Act II, 
with the Warkworth Castle scenes omitted. 

Act III begins with the scene at Shallow's house, 
but the rest of the act follows Shakespeare. 

Act IV begins with the King's soliloquy on sleep, 
taken from Act III; then comes the scene of the 
King's death, followed by the scene in which Silence 
sings; and the act closes with the interview between 
the Lord Chief Justice and King Henry V. 

In Act V, Betterton omits the comic scenes (i. and 
iv.), and opens the act with the King's progress to 
Westminster Abbey. Falstaff is rebuked, but is not 
sent to the Fleet, and the play concludes with an 
abridgment of the first Act of Henry V. 

Betterton had the good taste not to tamper with 
Shakespeare's wording to any great extent. 

On December 17, 1720, at Drury Lane, the play 
was revived again. It was acted five nights succes- 
sively and once afterwards. It was in this revival 
that Cibber first appeared as Justice Shallow and 
made 'one of the great successes of the day.' Mills 
was Falstaff, and Wilks the Prince. Eleven years 
later (1731) came another Drury Lane revival, with 
Mills as the Prince, Harper as Falstaff, and Cibber 
still playing Shallow. Five years later (1736) the 
same company, with the exception of Harper, pro- 
duced the play again at Drury Lane for the benefit 
of the great Quin, who played Falstaff. In 1744 
and 1749 there were revivals at the Covent Garden 
Theatre, Quin again playing Falstaff. 

A performance at Drury Lane in 1758 was made 
notable by Garrick's first appearance in the role of 
the King. He had appeared as Hotspur in Part I 
twelve years before, but had not achieved great suc- 
cess in that role. As the King in Part II 'his figure 
did not assist him, but the forcible expression of his 
countenance, and his energy of utterance, made ample 
amends for the defect of person.' 



King Henry the Fourth 149 

On December 11, 1761, and for twenty-two con- 
secutive days, King Henry IV, Part II, was presented 
at Covent Garden in honor of the coronation of King 
George III. For this performance an elaborate 
coronation pageant was devised which was used again 
in 1821 by Macready at the time of the coronation 
of William IV. Other revivals occurred at Drury 
Lane in 1764 and 1777, and at Covent Garden in 
1773, 1784, and 1804. A sensational feature of 
the 1773 performance was the appearance of an 
anonymous 'Gentleman' as the King, 'his first per- 
formance on any stage,' and of Mrs. Lessingham, for 
whose benefit the play was given, as Prince Hal. 
In the 1804 production John Philip Kemble played 
the King, and Charles Kemble the Prince. Charles 
Kemble again appeared as the Prince in Macready's 
production in June, July, and August, 1821. 

Of Macready's performance he himself writes in 
his Reminiscences; 'Kemble had revived the play in 
1804, but produced little effect. Garrick had not 
given the prominence he had expected to the part 
of the King, and for these reasons I begged to be 
excused from appearing in it. But my objections 
were set aside. . . . To every line of it I gave the 
most deliberate attention, and felt the full power 
of its pathos. The audience hung intently on every 
word. The admission of the perfect success of the 
performance was without dissent. The revival re- 
warded the managers with houses crowded to the 
ceiling for many nights, nor was this attributable to 
the pageant only, for the acting was of the highest 
order. Fawcett was the best Falstaff then upon the 
stage, but he more excelled in other parts.' The per- 
fection of Macready's success was not, however, 
'without dissent.' 'An old playgoer,' in a letter to 
Tallis's Dramatic Magazine for April, 1851, says of 
Macready's Henry IV: "In this role he approached 
nearest to an elocutionist, but generally the effect of 



150 Second Part of King Henry the Fourth 

his declamation was unpleasant, harsh, and grating. 
Kemble's poses were studied but graceful, not like 
the stiff upright poses of Macready wherein I have 
often wondered how he could preserve his equilib- 
rium." 

On March 17, 1853, in his ninth season at Sadler's 
Wells, Samuel Phelps produced King Henry IV, 
Part II, he himself playing the double role of the 
King and Justice Shallow. Contemporary reviews 
speak of his complete triumph, and say that sceptical 
critics are now converted to this as a stage play. 
Phelps used Betterton's version, and revived the play 
again in London in 1864 and in 1874. In the 1874 
production Forbes-Robertson, aged 21, appeared as 
Prince Hal. William Winter records an interesting 
anecdote of the first rehearsal. Phelps, after watch- 
ing Forbes-Robertson for a time, said: 'Young man, 
I see that you know nothing about this. Come to my 
room tonight.' 

The play has been practically unknown on the 
American stage. There were twenty-six revivals of 
Part I in America in the eighteenth century, but 
apparently none of Part II. In the nineteenth cen- 
tury the American comedian, James H. Hackett, 
played the part of Falstaff almost annually from 
1830 to 1870, in both England and America, but it 
was the Falstaff of Part I and of The Merry Wives. 
In 1895-1896 Miss Julia Marlowe played the part 
of Prince Hal in an abridged version of the two parts 
of the play; and in 1896-1897 Daly planned a revival 
which never got beyond rehearsal. Miss Ada Rehan 
was to play Prince Hal, and James Lewis, Falstaff. 
The Delta Psi Dramatic Club of Harvard University 
gave a creditable amateur performance of Part II in 
the winter of 1915-1916. 



APPENDIX C 
The Text of the Present Edition 

The text of the present edition is, in the main, by 
permission of the Oxford University Press, that of 
the Oxford Shakespeare, edited by the late W. J. 
Craig. Stage directions, when not bracketed, are 
from either the First Quarto or the First Folio or 
both; bracketed stage directions are modern. The 
title of the play is from the First Quarto. The 
Dramatis Persona? are as given in the First Folio 
under the caption 'The Actors' Names.' 

In II. ii. 131-149 the present editor has substituted 
the original assignment of speeches, in 11. 131, 135, as 
found in both Quarto and Folio, for Craig's assign- 
ment, as there seems to be no sufficient reason for 
emendations. He has also assigned 11. 139-148 to the 
Prince. Craig divides as follows: 

131-133 Poins. Sir John . . . certificate. 

134 Prince. Peace. 

135-149 Poins. I will ... eat it. 

Many minor departures from the Oxford text have 
been made in this edition in an attempt to arrive at a 
consistent text. The Oxford editor has in the major- 
ity of cases followed the readings of the First 
Quarto, but in about fifty instances he has adopted 
the slightly different expressions used in the more 
formal and less colloquial Folio text. For example, 
in the scenes of low comedy, he in the Folio is almost 
invariably a' in the Quarto ; is it is is 't; it is is 'tis; 
etc. The Oxford editor has used sometimes the 
formal, sometimes the informal expression. He 
sometimes follows the Folio in correcting the gram- 
mar and the mispronunciations of Mistress Quickly 
and Justice Shallow, and sometimes does not; he 



152 The Second Part of 

frequently omits the oaths found in the Quarto and 
expurgated in the Folio, but more frequently includes 
them. The present editor has not thought it wise 
to burden his pages with a long list of the minor 
changes he has made in the Oxford text. His policy 
has been to follow, in general, the more colloquial 
Quarto text. 

In the following list of other variants the readings 
of the present edition precede the colon, Craig's read- 
ings follow it, and the Quarto or Folio authority is 
given wherever involved: 

Ind.35 hole QF: hold 

I. i. 33 comes QF: come 
ii. 5 moe Q: more F 

44 through QF: thorough 
132 it QF: its 

II. i. 2 action QF: exion 

6 Sirrah!—: Sirrah, QF 

82 all I have Q: all, all I have F 

184 my lord Q: my good lord F 

ii. 21 another Q: one other F 

66 an QF: a 

75 those QF: these 

82 Poins QF: Bard. 

123 kin QF: akin 

137 he sure Q: sure he F 

iii. 63 his QF: its 

iv. 42 a pox damn you Q : omit F 

51 Yea, joy Q: Ay, marry F 

91 debuty Q: deputy F 

93 Wedesday Q: Wednesday F 

142 but I will Q: I will (passage omitted in F) 

171 faitors (faters Q): fates F 

194 fortune Q: fortuna F 

298 shalt have Q: thou shalt have F 

428-9 Come! (She comes blubbered.) Yea, will you 
come, Doll? Q: omit F 

III. ii. 210 field QF: fields 

339 invisible: invincible QF 

IV. ii. 14 mischiefs QF: mischief 

v. 146 inward, true, and Q: true and inward F 

V. iii. 141 Blessed Q: Happy F 

142 to Q: unto F 



King Henry the Fourth 158 

i v. 2 that I might die Q : I might die F 

11 wert Q: hadst F 
v. 25 best, Q: most F 



APPENDIX D 
Suggestions for Collateral Reading 

A. C. Bradley: The Rejection of Falstaff in Oxford 
Lectures on Poetry. London, 1909. 

George Brandes: William Shakespeare, a Critical 
Study. London, 1880. 

Stopford Brooke: Ten More Plays of Shakespeare. 
London, 1913. 

Beverley E. Warner: English History in Shake- 
speare's Plays. New York, 1894. 

See also the corresponding appendix to Henry IV, 
Part I, in this edition. 



INDEX OF WORDS GLOSSED 



(Figures in full-faced type refer to page-numbers) 



a': 12 (I. ii. 48) 
able: 4 (I. i. 43) 
accite: 110 (V. ii. 141) 
accites: 33 (II. ii. 67) 
accommodated: 61 (III. ii. 

73) 
Achitophel: 12 (I. ii. 39) 
actions: 105 (V. i. 89) 
address'd: 88 (IV. iv. 5) 
advis'd: 9 (I. i. 172) 
affect: 98 (IV. v. 143) 
affections: 90 (IV. iv. 65) 
affections of delight: 38 (II. 

iii. 29) 
a fourteen: 60 (III. ii. 53) 
after my seeming: 110 (V. 

ii. 129) 
against: 81 (IV. ii. 81) 
Alecto: 119 (V. v. 40) 
an: 3 (I. i. 13) 
ancient: 42 (II. iv. 73) 
apple-johns: 40 (II. iv. 2) 
approve: 16 (I. ii. 182) 
apter: 5 (I. i. 69) 
argument: 100 (IV. v. 197) ; 

106 (V. ii. 23) 
armed staves: 74 (IV. i. 

120) 
as: 92 (IV. iv. 123) 
assemblance: 67 (III. ii. 

280) 
at a word: 69 (III. ii. 322) 
atomy: 117 (V. iv. 32) 
atonement: 78 (IV. i. 221) 
attached: 31 (II. ii. 3) 
attend: 3 (I. i. 3) 
at twelve score: 60 (III. ii. 
52) 



away with: 65 (III. ii. 216) 
awful: 76 (IV. i. 176) 

backsword man: 61 (III. ii. 

71) 
balance and sword: 109 

(V. ii. 103) 
Barbary hen: 44 (II. iv. 

107) 
Barson: 114 (V. iii. 92) 
Bartholomew boar-pig: 48 

(II. iv. 249, 250) 
basket-hilt: 45 (II. iv. 139) 
bate (n.): 49 (II. iv. 271) 
bate (vb.): 122 (Epil. 16) 
battle: 64 (III. ii. 167) 
bear-herd: 17 (I. ii. 194) 
bear in hand: 12 (I. ii. 40) 
beavers: 74 (IV. i. 120) 
before: 78 (IV. i. 228) 
bestow: 37 (II. ii. 186) 
Bezonian: 115 (V. iii. 115) 
biggin: 94 (IV. v. 26) 
blood: 38 (II. iii. 30) 
blubbered: 54 (II. iv. 428 

S. d.) 
blue-bottle: 117 (V. iv. 22) 
Bolingbroke: 10 (I. i. 208) 
bona-robas: 59 (III. ii. 26) 
borrower's cap: 35 (II. ii. 

127, 128) 
bounce: 68 (III. ii. 307) 
brawl: 22 (I. iii. 70) 
brawn: 3 (I. i. 19) 
break: 122 (Epil. 14) 
breath'd: 74 (IV. i. 114) 
breeds no bate: 49 (II. iv. 

271) 
bruited: 7 (I. i. 114) 



Second Part of King Henry the Fourth 155 



buckle: 8 (Li 141) 
bung: 45 (II. iv. 136) 
but: 114 (V. iii. 91) 



caliver: 68 (III. ii. 
calm: 41 (II. iv. 39) 
candle-mine: 51 (II. iv. 

328) 
canker'd: 96 (IV. v. 70) 
cankers: 34 (II. ii. 104) 
cannibals: 46 (II. iv. 179) 
caraways: 111 (V. iii. 3) 
care: 98 (IV. v. 134) 
carmen: 69 (III. ii. 344) 
case: 28 (II. i. 119) 
cast: 9 (I. i. 166); 102 (V. 

i. 21) 
cavaleros: 112 (V. iii. 60) 
chambers: 42 (II. iv. 56) 
chanced: 6 (I. i. 87) 
channel: 26 (II. i. 54) 
chaps: 45 (II. iv. 137) 
charge: 13 (I. ii. 71) 
cheater: 43 (II. iv. 104) 
check: 84 (IV. iii. 34) 
check'd: 57 (III. i. 68) 
chopp'd: 68 (III. ii. 297) 
chops: 48 (II. iv. 234) 
churlish: 22 (I. iii. 62) 
cinders: 85 (IV. iii. 58) 
clapped i' the clout: 60 (III. 

ii. 51) 
close: 52 (II. iv. 358) 
cock and pie: 102 (V. i. 1) 
coldest: 106 (V. ii. 31) 
colour: 19 (I. ii. 280); 120 

(V. v. 92) 
colours: 120 (V. v. 94) 
come to any proof: 86 (IV. 

iii. 97, 98) 
come you in: 68 (III. ii. 

306) 
commission: 62 (III. ii. 98) 
commodity: 19 (I. ii. 282) 
commotion's: 73 (IV. i. 93) 
companion: 44 (II. iv. 130) 



complices: 8 (Li. 163) 
conceit: 49 (II. iv. 263) 
conceive: 35 (II. ii. 126) 
condition: 83 (IV. iii. 1); 86 

(IV. iii. 90) 
confound: 90 (IV. iv. 41) 
conger: 42 (II. iv. 57) 
consent: 104 (V. i. 78) 
considerance: 109 (V. ii. 

98) 
consign'd: 76 (IV. i. 175) 
consigning to: 110 (V. ii. 

143) 
conversations: 121 (V. v. 

106) 
corporate: 66 (III. ii. 238) 
costermonger: 17 (I. ii. 

193) 
countenance: 103 (V. i. 41) 
counter: 14 (I. ii. 102) 
cover: 40 (II. iv. 11) 
crack: 59 (III. ii. 34) 
crafty-sick: 2 (Ind. 37) 
crudv: 87 (IV. iii. 106) 
current: 28 (II. i. 136) 
cuttle: 45 (II. iv. 138) 

dead elm: 52 (II. iv. 363) 
dear: 98 (IV. v. 139) 
debuty: 43 (II. iv. 91) 
defensible: 39 (II. iii. 38) 
determin'd: 96 (IV. v. 80) 
did grace: 7 (I. i. 129) 
discolours the complexion : 

31 (II. ii. 5) 
dispatch: 86 (IV. iii. 82) 
dole: 9 (I. i. 169) 
done me right: 113 (V. iii. 

74) 
doubt: 121 (Epil. 7) 
draw: 23 (I. iii. 109); 29 

(II. i. 166) 
drawer: viii (Dramatis Per- 
sons) 
drollery: 29 (II. i. 160) 



156 



The Second Part of 



dub me knight: 113 (V. iii. 

76) 
duer: 69 (III. ii. 332) 
dull: 93 (IV. v. 2) 

Earl of Hereford: 75 (IV. 

i. 131) 
easy: 108 (V. ii. 71) 
ebon: 119 (V. v. 40) 
edge: 9 (Li. 170) 
effect: 29 (II. i. 146) 
element: 85 (IV. iii. 58) 
endear'd: 38 (II. iii. 11) 
engaged to: 9 (I. i. 180) 
engraffed: 33 (II. ii. 69) 
engrossed: 96 (IV. v. 69) 
enlarge: 10 (I. i. 204) 
Ephesians: 36 (II. ii. 164) 
event: 9 (I. i. 166) 
ever among: 111 (V. iii. 22) 
exion: 25 (II. i. 34) 
expedition: 84 (IV. iii. 37) 

face-royal: 11 (I. ii. 25) 
faitors: 46 (II. iv. 171) 
fancies: 69 (III. ii. 345) 
fear: 92 (IV. iv. 121) 
fetch it from Japhet: 35 

(II. ii. 130) 
fetch off: 69 (III. ii. 326) 
few: 7 (I. i. 112) 
fig: 115 (V. iii. 121) 
figure: 21 (I. iii. 43) 
figuring: 57 (III. i. 81) 
file: 20 (I. iii. 10) 
fiapdragons: 49 (II. iv. 267) 
Fleet: 121 (V. v. 97) 
flesh'd: 8 (I. i. 149) 
foin: 24 (II. i. 19) 
follow'd: 3 (I. i. 21) 
fondly: 83 (IV. ii. 120) 
fond many: 23 (I. iii. 91) 
forehand shaft: 60 (III. ii. 

52, 53) 
forestall'd remission: 107 

(V. ii. 38) 



forgetive: 87 (IV. iii. 107) 
form: 57 (III. i. 87); 71 

(IV. i. 20); 98 (IV. v. 

117) 
forspent: 4 (I. i. 37) 
foutra: 114 (V. iii. 100) 
frank: 36 (II. ii. 160) 
fubbed: 25 (II. i. 39) 
full points: 47 (II. iv. 197) 
fustian: 47 (II. iv. 202) 

Galloway nags: 47 (II. iv. 

204) 
gambol: 49 (II. iv. 273) 
'gan: 7 (Li. 129) 
garland: 108 (V. ii. 84) 
gave them out: 71 (IV. i. 

23) 
German hunting: 29 (II. i. 

161) 
get wenches: 87 (IV. iii. 

101) 
gibbets: 67 (III. ii. 285) 
gird: 11 (I. ii. 6) 
glutton: 12 (I. ii. 38) 
good-nights: 69 (III. ii. 

345) 
good-year: 42 (II. iv. 63) 
grace: 7 (Li. 129) 
grafting: 111 (V. iii. 3) 
green: 27 (II. i. 109) 
grief: 8 (I. i. 144) 
griefs: 73 (IV. i. 69) 
groat: 19 (I. ii. 267) 
guarded: 72 (IV. i. 34) 

half-kirtles: 117 (V. iv. 24) 
halt: 19 (I. ii. 279) 
hangs: 77 (IV. i. 213) 
Harry ten shillings: 66 

(III. ii. 239) 
haunch: 91 (IV. iv. 92) 
hautboy: 70 (III. ii. 354) 
head: 9 (I. i. 168) 
hearken at: 50 (II. iv. 304) 
heart: 111 (V. iii. 30) 



King Henry the Fourth 



157 



heat: 84 (IV. iii. 27) 
heaviness: 81 (IV. ii. 82) 
heavy: 106 (V. ii. 14) 
heels: 15 (I. ii. 142) 
hence: 100 (IV. v. 213) 
hilding: 5 (I. i. 57) 
Hiren: 46 (II. iv. 172) 
his: 15 (I. ii. 134) 
hold sortance: 71 (IV. i. 

11) 
hole: 2 (Ind. 35) 
honey-seed: 26 (II. i. 59) 
honey-suckle: 26 (II. i. 58) 
how: 60 (III. ii. 42) 
humours: 29 (II. i. 165) 
hunt counter: 14 (I. ii. 102) 
hurly: 56 (III. i. 25) 
husband: 111 (V. iii. 11) 

ill: 16 (I. ii. 188) 

ill laid up: 105 (V. i. 94) 

imbrue: 47 (II. iv. 209) 

immediate: 95 (IV. v. 41) 

imp: 119 (V. v. 47) 

in charge: 74 (IV. i. 120) 

indifferency: 84 (IV. iii. 23) 

in equal rank: 110 (V. ii. 

137) 
in few: 7 (I. i. 112) 
infinitive: 25 (II. i. 28) 
inns o' court: 59 (III. ii. 

14) 
in respect of: 15 (I. ii. 147) 
insinew'd: 76 (IV. i. 172) 
instance: 58 (III. i. 103) 
intelligencer: 79 (IV. ii. 20) 
intended: 76 (IV. i. 166) 
intervallums: 105 (V. i. 90) 
invested: 88 (IV. iv. 6) 
in virtue: 76 (IV. i. 163) 
irregular: viii (Dramatis 

Personae) 
is chanced: 6 (I. i. 87) 
it: 15 (I. ii. 132) 

Japhet: 35 (II. ii. 130) 



Jerusalem Chamber: 88 

(IV. iv. S. d.) 
joint-stools: 49 (II. iv. 269) 
Jordan: 41 (II. iv. 37) 
juggler: 45 (II. iv. 139) 
just: 115 (V. iii. 124) 
just proportion: 71 (IV. i. 

23) 
juvenal: 11 (I. ii. 21) 

Keech: 27 (II. i. 104) 
ken: 75 (IV. i. 151) 
kickshaws: 103 (V. i. 29) 
kindly: 96 (IV. v. 82) 
kirtle: 50 (II. iv. 297) 

land service: 15 (I. ii. 155) 
leather-coats: 112 (V. iii. 

42) 
leman: 112 (V. iii. 47) 
less: 10 (I. i. 209) 
Lethe: 108 (V. ii. 72) 
level: 28 (II. i. 128) 
lewd: 33 (II. ii. 68) 
liggens: 113 (V. iii. 66) 
lighten: 31 (II. i. 212) 
like: 22 (I. iii. 81) 
lin'd: 21 (I. iii. 27) 
lisping: 50 (II. iv. 289) 
look beyond: 90 (IV. iv. 67) 
Lubber's Head: 25 (II. i. 32, 

33) 
Lumbert Street: 25 (II. i. 

33) 

make: 10 (I. i. 214) 
make head: 9 (I. i. 168) 
malmsey-nose: 25 (II. i. 44, 

45) 
malt-worms: 52 (II. iv. 

366, 367) 
mandrake: 11 (I. ii. 16) 
manned with an agate: 11 

(I. ii. 18) 
man-queller: 26 (II. i. 60) 
mare: 27 (II. i. 86) 



158 



The Second Part of 



marks: 17 (I. ii. 
martlemas: 35 (II. ii. 112) 
mate: 44 (II. iv. 132) 
mechanical: 118 (V. v. 39) 
medicine potable: 99 (IV. 

V. 161) 
mete: 91 (IV. iv. 77) 
miscarried: 75 (IV. i. 129) 
misdoubts: 77 (IV. i. 206) 
mode: 100 (IV. v. 198) 
Monmouth: 2 (Ind. 29) 
more: 10 (I. i. 209) 
mure: 92 (IV. iv. 119) 
muse: 76 (IV. i. 167) 

names: 75 (IV. i. 154) 
nave of a wheel: 50 (II. iv. 

278) 
necessary form: 57 (III. i. 

87) 
neif: 47 (II. iv. 199) 
nice: 8 (I. i. 145); 39 (II. 

iii. 40); 77 (IV. i. 191) 
night-gown: 55 (III. i. S. d.) 
nobles: 30 (II. i. 171) 
noise: 40 (II. iv. 13) 
nut-hook: 116 (V. iv. 8) 

observance: 84 (IV. iii. 

16) 
observ'd: 89 (IV. iv. 30) 
occupy: 45 (II. iv. 159) 
o'er-posting: 16 (I. ii. 173) 
offer: 78 (IV. i. 219) 
offices: 21 (I. iii. 47) 
of sufferance: 117 (V. iv. 

27) 
old utis: 41 (II. iv. 21, 22) 
omit: 89 (IV. iv. 27) 
one: 25 (II. i. 37) 
opposites: viii (Dramatis 

Personae) 
orchard: 3 (I. i. 4) 
order: 65 (III. ii. 200) 
ousel: 59 (III. ii. 9) 



over-rode: 4 (I. i. 30) 
over-scutched huswives : 69 

(III. ii. 343) 
overween: 75 (IV. i. 149) 
owches: 42 (II. iv. 52) 
owed: 10 (I. ii. 4) 

pantler: 49 (II. iv. 258) 
parcel-gilt: 27 (II. i. 97) 
part (n.): 96 (IV. v. 62) 
part (vb.): 81 (IV. ii. 70) 
part-created cost: 22 (I. iii. 

60) 
particular: 91 (IV. iv. 90) 
passing: 81 (IV. ii. 85) 
passion: 8 (I. i. 161) 
Paul's: 12 (I. ii. 57) 
pawn'd: 83 (IV. ii. 113) 
peasant: 2 (Ind. 33) 
person: 108 (V. ii. 73) 
peruse: 82 (IV. ii. 94) 
philosopher's stones : 70 

(III. ii. 357) 
picking: 77 (IV. i. 198) 
point: 5 (I. i. 53); 72 (IV. 

i. 52) 
poll: 50 (II. iv. 282) 
ports: 94 (IV. v. 23) 
post: 54 (II. iv. 413) 
posts: 53 (II. iv. 390); 84 

(IV. iii. 40) 
pottle-pot: 34 (II. ii. 86) 
precepts: 102 (V. i. 14) 
pregnancy: 17 (I. ii. 196) 
present: 86 (IV. iii. 80) 
presented: 108 (V. ii. 79) 
presently: 30 (II. i. 194) 
prevent: 19 (I. ii. 263) 
price: 114 (V. iii. 98) 
prick: 62 (III. ii. 123) 
pricked down: 52 (II. iv. 

364) 
prof ace: 111 (V. iii. 28) 
project of a power: 21 (I. 

iii. 29) 



King Henry the Fourth 



159 



proper: 109 (V. ii. 109) 
proper fellow of my hands: 

33 (II. ii. 74) 
propose: 108 (V. ii. 92) 
punish by the heels: 15 (I. 

ii. 142) 
purchas'd: 100 (IV. v. 198) 
push: 32 (II. ii. 42) 

quality: 71 (IV. i. 11) 
quantities: 104 (V. i. 69) 
quean: 26 (II. i. 53) 
queasiness: 10 (I. i. 196) 
question: 4 (I. i. 48) 
quit: 53 (II. iv. 376) 
quittance: 6 (Li. 108) 
quiver: 68 (III. ii. 304) 
quoif: 8 (Li. 147) 
quoit: 47 (II. iv. 205) 

ragged: 107 (V. ii. 38) 
ragged'st: 8 (Li. 151) 
reckonings: 17 (I. ii. 196) 
recordation: 39 (II. iii. 61) 
red lattice: 34 (II. ii. 88) 
remember'd: 110 (V. ii. 143) 
remembrance: 109 (V. ii. 

115) 
render'd: 81 (IV. ii. 87) 
resolv'd correction: 77 (IV. 

i. 213) 
respect: 9 (I. i. 184); 15 (I. 

ii. 147) 
rheumatic: 42 (II. iv. 61) 
rides the wild mare: 49 (II. 

iv. 268) 
rigol: 94 (IV. v. 35) 
rood: 59 (III. ii. 3) 
roundly: 59 (III. ii. 21) 
routs: 71 (IV. i. 33) 



sack: 18 (I. ii. 
sad: 105 (V. i. 91) 
sadly: 109 (V. ii. 125) 
said: 111 (V. iii. 9) 



Samingo: 113 (V. iii. 77) 
score: 25 (II. i. 28) 
sea-coal: 27 (II. i. 98) 
seal'd up: 97 (IV. v. 102) 
second body: 108 (V. ii. 

90) 
second brother: 33 (II. ii. 

73) 
sect: 41 (II. iv. 40) 
seel: 55 (III. i. 19) 
semblable coherence : 104 

(V. i. 72) 
set off: 75 (IV. i. 145) 
seven stars: 47 (II. iv. 200) 
shadows: 63 (III. ii. 147) 
shallowly: 83 (IV. ii. 119) 
sherris-sack: 87 (IV. iii. 

104) 
shove-groat: 47 (II. iv. 205) 
Shrewsbury: 2 (Ind. 24) 
shrove-tide: 112 (V. iii. 36) 
sickly quoif: 8 (Li. 147) 
sights: 74 (IV. i. 121) 
sign of the leg: 49 (II. iv. 

271) 
since when: 45 (II. iv. 139) 
single: 17 (I. ii. 210) 
Sisters Three: 47 (II. iv. 

212) 
Skogan: 59 (III. ii. 33) 
slight: 76 (IV. i. 167) 
slops: 11 (I. ii. 33) 
smooth-pates: 12 (I. ii. 42) 
sneap: 28 (II. i. 137) 
soil: 100 (IV. v. 188) 
sortance: 71 (IV. i. 11) 
south: 53 (II. iv. 397) 
spit white: 18 (I. ii. 241) 
stand my good lord: 86 (IV. 

iii. 89) 
state of floods: 110 (V. ii. 

132) 
staying: 4 (I. i. 48) 
stiff-borne: 9 (I. i. 177) 
still: 1 (Ind. 4) 



160 Second Part of King Henry the Fourth 



stomach: 7 (Li. 129); 92 

(IV. iv. 105) 
stop: 1 (Ind. 17) 
strained passion: 8 (I. i. 

161) 
strange-achieved: 96 (IV. 

v. 70) 
strond: 5 (I. i. 62) 
studied: 31 (II. ii. 10) 
success: 80 (IV. ii. 47) 
successively: 100 (IV. v. 

200) 
sufficient: 62 (III. ii. 104) 
supplies: 20 (I. iii. 12) 
Surecard: 62 (III. ii. 96) 
suspire: 94 (IV. v. 32) 
swaggerers: 43 (II. iv. 80) 
swinge-bucklers : 59 (III. ii. 

24) 
swinged: 116 (V. iv. 21) 

ta: 26 (II. i. 65) 
tables: 50 (II. iv. 289) 
taken up: 79 (IV. ii. 26) 
takes upon him: 35 (II. ii* 

126) 
take the heat: 51 (II. iv. 

326, 327) 
taking up: 12 (I. ii. 45) 
tall: 61 (III. ii. 68) 
tame cheater: 43 (II. iv. 

104, 105) 
temper: 27 (II. i. 90) 
tempering: 88 (IV. iii. 141) 
terms: 105 (V. i. 89) 
tester: 68 (III. ii. 299) 
thick: 38 (II. iii. 24) 
thousands: 64 (III. ii. 180) 
through: 12 (I. ii. 44) 
tiring: 2 (Ind. 37) 
tirrits: 47 (II. iv. 219) 
to: 74 (IV. i. 104) 
toward: 47 (II. iv. 213) 
toys: 46 (II. iv. 182) 
traverse: 68 (III. ii. 294) 
Trigon: 50 (II. iv. 288) 



trimm'd: 23 (I. iii. 94) 
two points: 45 (II. iv. 140) 

unseason'd: 58 (III. i. 105) 
utis: 41 (II. iv. 22) 

vail: 7 (Li. 129) 
vain: 119 (V. v. 49) 
valuation: 77 (IV. i. 189) 
vanity: 98 (IV. v. 118) 
vaward: 17 (I. ii. 202) 
vent: 1 (Ind. 2) 
vice: 25 (II. i. 26) 
Vice's dagger: 69 (III. ii. 

346) 
virtuous: 96 (IV. v. 74) 

wanton: 8 (I. i. 148) 
warder: 74 (IV. i. 125) 
wassail candle: 16 (I. ii. 

181) 
waste: 101 (IV. v. 214) 
watch-case: 55 (III. i. 17) 
water- work: 29 (II. i. 162) 
wax: 16 (I. ii. 182) 
well-appointed: 9 (I. i. 190) 
well conceited: 103 (V. i. 

39) 
wen: 35 (II. ii. 117) 
what: 2 (I. i. 2); 15 (I. ii. 

130) 
Wheeson: 27 (II. i. 99) 
whoreson: 11 (I. ii. 15) 
will not out: 113 (V. iii. 68) 
winking: 21 (I. iii. 33) 
with: 94 (IV. v. 30) 
witness'd usurpation: 5 (I. 

i. 63) 
workings: 79 (IV. ii. 22) 
wo't: 26 (II. i. 65) 
writ man: 11 (I. ii. 29) 
wrought: 92 (IV. iv. 119) 

yea-forsooth knave: 12 (I. 

ii. 40) 
yeoman: 24 (II. i. 4) 



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